Greetings of the day!! I am a rookie in P6 and want to explore about resource loading. I have scheduled the activities in P6. I need to assign resources and calculate Earned value. Can anybody enlighten me towards the resource loading and step by s...
Greetings of the day!! I have come across a terminology "Open End Activities". As far as P6 is concerned , i am able to decipher only the activities which are not having any relationships i.e. no predecessor and no successor.. What is the significa...
when we start a project , one of the major requirement is to agree with the consultant the relation between activities , or methodology of how activities will be linked together in each field ( engineering, procurements , construction... ect), always...
AACE 29R-03 is flawed: http://www.virginiadot.org/business/resources/const/AACE_Recommended_Practice_Forensic_Schedule_Impact_Analysis-29R-03.pdf 1) AACE 29R-03 makes continuous reference to float values instead of just using the software to show cau...
Hello all, any help here would be very much appreciated,, i'm currently using P6 accross and Enterprise netwrok with about 6 other users, within my User Preferences I do NOT have Reorganize Automatically checked, however, whenever an activity has a...
I have 4 project that are using the same activity code "RESP". For some reason when ever I try to organize under RESP code the heading comes up "NO RESP" code. This heading comes up for each project. There are other activity codes that are exactly th...
We are trying to run the Update Baseline function in Primavera P6.2, and we are getting an error:Update Baseline rejected with User 225 does not have create privileges on Project CodeI believe this is because the Project has 3 secure Project Codes at...
Hello everybody!I have been trying to find a credible source defining "Wild Air" with no success.What I am looking for is a definition I can use in the introduction of a claim for loss and expense due to the unavailability of wild air. Therefore, the...
Hi to all,I may be considered as new to planning and I really appreciate your assistance here.I have received an ongoing schedule as an xer file from a contractor (which is prepared for a specific part of my general shedule) and I have to integrate i...
hi all have made a schedule which includes both preconstruction and construction phase now i want to assign two seperate calenders one 5 days a week working to preconstruction stage and the other 6 days a week working calender to the construction ...
Dear Sir I am facing a problem with our Secant piling Contractor.They have completed 8 primary piles since last three days.When they started boring for the secondary piles their machines are broken down and we came to know that their machine and dri...
How do I edit/change the periods in the Monthly Project Cash Flow Report? The report only shows NOV and DEC 2011 and I want to show all periods from NOV 2011 to NOV 2012. This is in P6 Thanks for any help.
OK I fixed it ... memory must be going...
Dear All, Why P6 can’t shows correct dates of Start and Finish (BL Start & BL Finish), if we set an ongoing program as baseline program. When we insert baseline column of an ongoing program, most of the activities, which are already completed are sho...
Dear All, I have started my project on 24th July 2011 – 7:00 am and my completion date of project is 31st Dec 2012 5:00 pm. I am using 6 days 10 hours working calendar for all activities and my WBS is also using the same calendar as Default calenda...
Dear All, I have noticed in a program , when assigned as Project Baseline , the schedule % completion instead of increasing each week goes by is decreasing ??? How to explain this situation , since planned % progress should increase , as each week g...
Dear All, If we are not using Pice/unit in P6 and directly entering cost in P6 , the cost is not getting update in P6, if we are updating the activity in P6........Why this is happing.....Pls let me know...... regards, Haresh Jayanth - PMP , PSP
Hi,I am currently using SAP 6.0 for my Plant Maintenance Schdueling. I was wondering how many companies/profesionals use P6 for schdeuling these Plant Maintenance Activities.I have tries a hand at MS Projet 2007 to present Plant Maintenance Schedules...
Hi All p6 users,Two Questions,I have added a resource but before assigning it to different activities i have following details to keep in mind,1- For Some activities the Units/Day are Distributed Equally through out the Duration of the actiivity.My q...
In the P6 Projects Overview screen, the "Duration % of Original" value for my project is about 18%. I also performed the following calculation in excel by exporting the duration columns: (Planning Duration-Remaining Duration)/Planned Duration *100. T...