Sometimes it’s useful, or even necessary to create a sandbox database to play around in for your P6 Professional client software. Here's how to create a new SQLite Database in Primavera P6 Professional http://ow.ly/3wJa30c27P7
Hello,I'm wondering if there's any way to filter or create a report for activities that have an open end. By open end I mean it doesn't have an activitiy tied to its start and/or its finish. I'm not just looking for activities that are missing a pred...
Hi,I am looking for other project managers that use metrics for software development metrics - to discuss what metrics they use, how they use them etc...Examples of metrics are bugs-found vs. bugs-fixed over time, bug-severity-breakdown over the past...
Here's how to rollup tasks in Microsoft Project for high level reporting http://ow.ly/qWMn30c3Yzd
When project team members are at each other's throats, the Project Manager must act fast to resolve. Onboarding new team members is a costly way to go, so communication and resolution is best. I've come up with a logical, 4 step process with a fun ac...
Hi, can anytbody suggest me how to load manhour in p6
Hi planners >>>Can I add resources per day?For example : I want to add 2 Engineers for every day , not for every activity , only for day and don't want to see how many of activities in this day.
Some time ago I was involved in the beginnings of a discussion here about “Full Time Equivalent” (FTE) with Vladimir and Rafael. I thought I would “complete” my thinking about this.P6 is basically unequipped for this, and we have to fudge it.I live i...
Dear Sirs,I am undertaking an online questionnaire for research entitled, “Study and analysis of barriers in BIM scheduling adoption for High-rise Buildings." It will not take more than 05 minutes of your time to fill this questionnaire. Your answer...
A topic that has never been explored in past with such details.Sharing with you a philosophy of life, project Management.How project management concepts are linked with various processes of life?How important are stakeholders and what part they play ...
Dear all,I just noticed, that there is no such activity field as activity status in Spider. Such field is normally available in other tools.E.g: In MS Project:· Complete· Future Task· On schedule· Late In Primavera· ...
I have a task with a milestones at the end of it in an existing MS Project. The successor is linked to the milestones itself and has a lead time. It is a finish to finish link. But the lead time should still be on the predecessor task? or on the mile...
Hi all,I would like to have your opinion on which is the best way to apply programme risk to the construction programme in P6. Thanks,
While the NAVFAC checklist is specific to Primavera P6, much of its guidance forms the foundation of sound standard scheduling principles, and is worth studying regardless of the tool you use http://ow.ly/Mi5s30cbDTm
Something completely wrong.What should you do if you employed by EPC contractor as PMO manager and confront with this problem :Sceratary and DCC activities are doing by same people within different projectsAccording to organization chart the DCC acti...
Dear All,In the P6 8.3 version, the data base has exceeds the 4GB space, and unable to import, export or delete projects.1. I could delete several small projects without resources and when I tried to delete bid projects "Event Code PRMDB-3293-E" and ...
Hello, What is the easiest and quickest way of exporting from P6 to MSP without dates and hours looking mental? I've tried doing a straightforward export but a lot of my dates have changed, even for completed activites, and the work is also incorrect...
HelloI use Powerproject 12 and when I enter the duration for a task and hit enter it defaults to seconds. Is there a way to make the duration column default to days unless another unit is entered?I've tried formating cells, catogory duration and the ...
I'm trying to set up a flag or filter in Project to capture upcoming tasks that are not yet done. This is the IIf statement I'm using for a custom field. Project accepts the syntax, but returns all fields as a 0. What am I doing wrong? The statement ...
Hi all,I have a Project with resources(100 nos) and price/units. I export it and send to the Contractor. Contractor added few resources (now 105 nos) and also he changed the price/unit of certain existing resources.Then while importing it to my syste...