Hi, Can I enquire if the contractor is to commit to the resources and equipment loaded in the loaded schedule ? And are they also suppose to commit to the resources in the late schedule as well, from the late start/finish ? The peak resource requirem...
I have added some additional tasks, including completion milestones, into the programme. The dates in the date columns are correct, but a small number of the bars on the Gantt Chart have slammed back to 1984!The file was originally 2007, I am workin...
Dear planners! I would appreciate your support with the following; There is still space for improvement in the timely delivery of complex engineering projects. I request your view on how to contribute to this aim. The importance of planning and contr...
Hi guys, Im badly in need of your help.Can anyone give me anidea for the detailed sequence of work in construction of spillway.it is 4-bay gated spillway. The length of spillway is 66.9m, height from the bottom of foundation is 32.0 meters, the width...
Dear Mike/Experts,I need to show 'holiday' text on bar chart. I use text annonation but could not align the text vertically. Further I could on find any orientation option to show it verticllay. How can I align the text vertically in asta? Please gi...
I have some critical activities (total float=0) are delayed by 27 days during updating, but it gives me only (-9) of total floatwhile it should be (-27)for example it is to be finished according to BL at 1st of December 2013, according to update it d...
Dear All,What will be the defference if a critical path is artificially created, or how will it affect the progress monitoring.Is there any problem with an artificially created critical path which follows the correct logic of sequence ..Your comments...
Dear Members,Recently i had a look at the MSc- Strategic Planning at Edinburgh Business School. I am post graduate with Construction Engineering and Management as specialistion and Civil Engineering degree as my graduate course. If anyone of you have...
I am trying to do a manual resource leveling and I would like to be able to focus on one wbs element at a time - unit. Is there a way to set up the profile so that it filters on wbs? I only want to see the resources for a specific unit not the enti...
I want to prepare revised program – but instead of using last update copy I want to prepare totally new program – of course the completed activities will be added as summary activities ( high level ) with 100% Status Is this accepted contractuall...
How many planners does it take to tile a bathroom?It depends how thin you slice them!
Hi there, My first post! I'm looking for Baseline fields in the P6 Database and cannot locate them. Principally interested in Project/BL1-3 baseline early start and finish dates. I've trawled the DB and this is the missing piece for a report I'm putt...
Dear all,I noticed the following behavior:Deleting of the data from the performance archive also deletes the original (planned) activity data. As in the example below, after I have deleted the performance archive from Activity 1, it’s duration change...
Dear all, I can find lots of references on converting the WBS of a project to Activity codes, but none about converting the other way around.I have a schedule that is organized using various activity codes, to make an export to MS Project I would lik...
Hi Friends, I encountered strange situation, got a schedule to review from 1 project and surprisingly found activities with neg (-) float but they are not critical, in fact most of the activities. Regards, Riaz
Dear Members,We at Planning Planet have created this Guild Discussion Forum to help our friends and colleagues at The Guild of Project Controls (GPC) to share their news, views and updates until they are in a position to run their own dedicated websi...
Dear PPers,We are rapidly completing the Table of Contents for our draft Cost Management Standard of Practice, and will be looking for participants in the development of the Standard. I have discussed the current ToC with a number of people and recei...
We get a lot of calls asking us to explain the different Percent Complete types in Primavera P6. Here's an article that explains each of them, when to use them and what the expected outcome would be http://ow.ly/nerEa I hope this helps, Emily
Dear Schedulers,For some reason after importing my schedule in another computer with P6, my budgeted labor units slightly changes (from 805,700 manhours to 789,500); all user settings seem to be identical in both machines. Please help, I gotta get my...
Dear all,Can you please check the below example.Unless I am missing something it looks for me, that Resource Constrained Schedule does not produce correct results for Start to Finish linked tasks.See example belowInitial scheduleResource Contrained s...