Hi All, I'm just about to start on the 'adventurous' task of building my own house and I want to create a WBS for the entire build. Does any one have a WBS structure for a building a house or could point me in the right direction to find one. Thanks ...
Not that I haven't done it before but I wanna have some discussion on how planners load quantities / cost from BOQ. I am currently studying on how to optimize the use of P6 in terms of valuation / claims / time extension cost impact etc...I would rea...
As a scheduler within various industries, I have been asked “What is Schedule Quality?” In fact, if you pose this question to various project personnel, you may receive more than one answer per individual! Why? Some view “schedule quality” as a simp...
Hello, Recalling from P3 that were able to create a native P3 file from a filtered layout, wonder if possible to do the same in P6. May be infront of the eyes and not able to see. Do not want to go to the path of deleting unwanted activities and th...
Urgently need help; I did a latest update for bi-weekly reporting , after my updation i assigned the baseline & found out that the earned value cost for two activities which are 100% complete does not replect in earned value column only the actual co...
in projects layout(Primavera6),where i used different codes in organization my projects,is there any way that i can show the number of projects under each branch(automaticly)? I tried to use user defined fields (Integer) and give value =1 to each pr...
Why is that some people say: you can not use Physical percent complete on this schedule because it is not resource-loaded ?As far as I know, Physical percent complete for the activities has nothing to do with the cost,except for calculation of WBS pe...
I am normally using Primavera, but am curently in an organisation using MS Project 2012 (+server). I have suggester to start link activities between projects, but the other planners in the org. claims, that MSP cannot handle this....! Statement from ...
Can anyone help me with my problem? I have this updated program and I want this to return to the original program which is not updated yet. If it has 15000 activities and 12000 are already on progress. Is there any short cut that will make it unupdat...
ALL,Can anyone help me how to keep the activity dates fixed. Everytime i press the F9 some dates are automatically adjusting on their own. I have to replot each activities again and again. I'm all done with the putting dates and relationships then wh...
Hi,I have an activity that is showing as critical with zero float (total float and free float) that shouldn't be .... all of it's sucessors have at least 1 day float on them, it has no constraints, the planned start and finish, remaining early start ...
Hello folks, I'm new to the site and have a few questions that you may be able to help me with. I would like to enter the scheduling field, but I'm not sure what my best route of attack should be to get there. I'm currently a regional safety manager ...
Hi All,How does the PMSDK and PMDB database get synchronized. I logged in to both the PMSDK and the PMDB database and saw exactly the same projects. Further, I generally use PMSDK to create projects and update them, I want to know how than this gets ...
Hi We have encountetred the following problem where I am looking at a particular record in my schedule, my colleague logs into the same schedule and looks at the same record and they see a different duration and remaining duration ( in fact their dur...
Normally I work with Primavera, but is currently working in a organisation where they are using MS Project. I have suggested that we link activites in different projects (files), as one development project is split into several areas each having thir...
Hi I would appreciate some help from any of you guys regarding a issue I am having with spreading actual costs (version 6.2.1) I have spread a resource (material @ £1/ea) on a WBS Summary Bar that encompasses the activity bars in question however w...
Here's part 2 on tuning the Primavera P6 Background Jobs http://ow.ly/kRlSX
Dear Planners I need your valuable advice Our planning department have recently got request from senior management to include Construction Engineering man-hours in Project Engineering S-Curve display . Some planners disagree with this action. The...
ALL,We are required by our client to compare actual percent complete vs planned percent complete on our weekly meeting. To report on actual percent complete, I'm using duration percent complete to show actual. I have one issue here, There are two dur...
I cannot figure out how to showing Actual Work/%Complete without it afffecting Planned Start & Planned Finish. I know I can show a Baseline. But I want to be working "in-project" on the schedule and the %Complete is controlling Planned Finish dates, ...