Hi, I'm new withing planning, and I can't seem to figure out what the differences between planning qty, earned qty and actual qty is. Example:Current Budget for welding is 20 760 hoursPlan Qty = 1 810Earn Qty = 504Exp Qty = 1696 And planned man power...
Is anyone updating Primavera to the latest release?Organisations I am working with typically use a 3-5-year-old Primavera version. Even when an upgrade is considered usually organisations don't feel comfortable upgrade P6 to the latest release. Is ...
what is the aacei or other official definition of "material change"? as in important not a material like wood...
should likely error in APPROVED baseline be allowed to stand? In a sequence of work on the critical path is a 5 day "sub-contractor mobilization" activity. Seems like an obvious error - they could likely mob anytime - such as - as the predecessor w...
Based on the information gathered at PC Expo Melbourne, Mosaic’s comprehensive project management software listing has been groomed and updated. A brief description and links to the developers’ web sites are provided for each entry. Our mission is t...
Hi everyone, I know that it is not best practice to have a mandatory finish constraint and negative float on your programme, but contractually we have to have those two in our programmes. Now the question is P6 shows all the negative activities as cr...
Hi All,I'm the P6 administrator for a large portfolio of projects that I've inherited and am in the process of cleansing the database, starting with global calendars. I have numerous calendars assigned to historical and current projects (both of whic...
Regarding the image attached - Excel can be used to display people, which site they are on at different points in the year.The second table shows how MS project / primavera defaults to. Each site would have to be done as a seperate row/line itemIs th...
Work Performance Management (WPM) is a methodology developed by Mosaic Project Services Pty Ltd to offer a simple, robust solution to the challenges of providing rigorous project controls information on projects that cannot (or are not) using CPM and...
what if the baseline is found to be wrong? - can you then claim that the project is behind or ahead when the baseline critical path has changed?
Hi AllHow do you tell whether an assigned calendar on P6 is the global or the project calendar if you have the same calendar name under the global and the project calendar libraries?
I’m wondering if anyone has written some SQL to calculate resource loading using the relevant database tables, where MSSQL is used as the backend.In the past we’ve used a VBA application to make resource loading information available to non-P6 users....
Hello, For a while, I have been facing some issues with leveling resources on P6. I understand the principle upon which it calculates start dates, but I'm facing issues "pinning" some activities down and forcing start and finish dates. For example I ...
Hi all.I need help on the productivity calculation for structural steel worksHow many manpower we should consider for how many tonnage.Now i have 700ton steel beams and column. It is for the construction of 6 floor factory expansion. The duration is ...
Hi all.I need help on the productivity calculation for structural steel worksHow many manpower we should consider for how many tonnage.Now i have 700ton steel beams and column. It is for the construction of 6 floor factory expansion. The duration is ...
Needing a reference or guidance. A L2 schedule should be a roll up from a L3 schedule. Sometimes however a L2 schedule may be an early deliverable long before a L3 is developed fully due to lack of design and/or subcontractor information. Maybe L2 is...
When can Compendium be read again?
This Thursday, Dec 21, noon to 1pm, US Eastern Time (two days away!), I will be presenting Northeastern University's Evidence-Based Project Management Practice Roundtable event titled "ROI Should Be King (Because All Projects are Investments!)”. Sess...
The best known LMM (Large Language Model) is ChatGPT. The developers acknowledge ChatGPT sometimes writes plausible-sounding but incorrect or nonsensical answers. Fixing this issue is challenging, as during the LLM training there is no single source ...
[[wysiwyg_imageupload:8564:]]I’m wondering what is causing the confusion appearing in so many posts lately concerning the definition of the critical path. Is it:A lack of knowledge?People being out of date and using superseded definitions?People not ...