Hello Everyone - I am fairly new to primavera and project planning in general. Up until recently, I have only been tasked with maintains project plans that has already been created. But a couple of days ago i was tasked with detailing out an existing...
Does P6 allow us to change the default activity type from FS to SS, FF, FS when linking multiple activities?Thanks
Hi all, I wonder if you can help. The schedule i'm building below has some original durations that differ from the longest 'At Completion Units' and some that match - I am under the impression that the planned (original) duration of a task should be...
Hi all, I wonder if you can help. The schedule i'm building below has some original durations that differ from the longest 'At Completion Units' and some that match - I am under the impression that the planned (original) duration of a task should be...
Dear Members;I need some tips regarding budgeted labor unit in P6 schedule;Case:I have a construction project with only one resource loaded (labour) and its assigned to all the activities with the budgeted labour units as per quantity of each activit...
Can you please tell me how to assign cost and resources in very fast way in Primavera P6?Someone told me assigning in excel and importing into primavera P6 is the easiest method in order to do resource or cost allocation.I don't know how to perform t...
Learing to use Roles (1st time user for Roles, expereinced w/ Resource Ids) and creating associated profiles in the panel below (in P6). I was in process of creating the Staffing Profiles and came across Unstaffed Remaing Units.On the created profile...
Hi,I have assigned manhours in the work column but the activity durations keep changing when I change the manhr value, how can I avoid changing activity duration?
Hi !!I want to make a calendar in MSP 2013 for which I copied the 24 hrs shift.Now using exceptions I entered the 4 national holidays which went fine.I marked all the sundays as Off. Now we have a shift change / off day every 15 days or on the alter...
What are the warning signs that you should look out for? Here are 10 signs that your PMO is struggling http://ow.ly/okFv303jEw5
Hi, I am a student in the UCD Msc program at Kaplan Singapore currently doing my final research paper with topic: Is knowledge gained from lesson learned from projects are managed properly by organizations that are based in South East Asia? The main...
Hello fellow project managers,I am currently writing my master's thesis on leadership styles in project management. If you are a project manager, either in name or by de facto (ie it's not your formal position but you do manage projects), I would app...
Dear all, i'm doing my Master of science dissertation in Bocconi University about the importance of controller's role. You can find at the link below a survey, it's very fast, only 3-4 minutes. Please, for you are only few minutes but for me can be e...
Hello Fellow Planners, I created a contract baseline at the initiation of my project and i have progressed the project since then so activity bars have obviously shifted fowards and backwards. I want to display my baseline finish dates on the chart n...
Here's some tips on how to schedule non-contractual important Project Task Dates http://ow.ly/OlhB303oh9v
Hi,Is there any way in P6 to show the milestones and their corresponding costs in P6 ? In short, am not sure if possible in activity view/gantt chart or Resource Assignment to show together the Milestones and their costs. I've tried to show them in R...
I have create a new project on 18th Aug with start date as 01st Aug. But, while creating the activities the start date by default is getting picked as 18th aug which is the data date. I want project start date (01st Aug) as the default start date for...
I'm really hoping someone can help me out with this one.I have a new prgramme that contains activities with multiple labour resources, as numerous people have an input into each activity. However, they all have different input levels, an example....I...
Hi, I am a new member here, so please excuse if my first attempt at posting a question doesn't look right. Basicaly my question relates to Microsoft Project 2013. I have recently done a construction work programme, but my frustration is that when I f...
I'm trying to collapse some but not all of the sub projects I have. Group and sort does it to a certain level, but is there a quick way to select a number of sub projects and expand or collapse them without having to affect the whole schedule? Thanks