I now have finally found some time to look at Spider. I mostly look at features, which are not available in MS Project. One of the really cool ones (based on my understanding) is resource skills, however I just can’t make it work. I must say, I di...
I'd like to ask the experts about examples of a Schedule Variance Report. I need to present this type of report on a bi-weekly schedule review meeting with the client. What do you show on that kind of reports? (i.e. every variance between current upd...
What does it mean when you have continous slippages in your schedule on every update? How do you solve this issue?
Dear Friends,As i had worked in different fields of Civil engineering like building ,Roads ,infrastructure and gained little experience and i want to have idea about the program in the field of oil and gas Industry as i dont know about anything of th...
Hello, I am using Primavera P6 for project management. I have a situation which I see as a problem for myself. If someone explains this to me, it will be really better for my management. The situation is that; I am entering the the start and fi...
Hello Guys I just got a job starting in January that requires the use of Primavera P6 , I need help and advise into the best possible way of going about grasping this within the next month, any help on resources and advise will be greatly apreciated....
Guys,I have my cost loaded schedule prepared in P3. I have made adjustments in cost using the global change then imported the p3 schedule in P6. After the successfull importing to P6, I noticed that the cost remains the same as if I have not made adj...
Guys, can someone help me on how to open a wks/wk1 files in MS Excel 2007/2010. it is not opening. Thanks Ariel
Hi Guys We are on a piping job using fidic and we are suffering huge delays due to reworking the pipe bedding up to 7 times sometimes due to rain.Ripping it all out etc.Our contract states rain EOT will be calculated using annual rainfall figures and...
Hello, I want to see the SPI value in my activity but I have an issue which I dont get. If someone explains this, it will be really great for me. In my activity, the earned value equals to planned value and the SPI is always 1. When I chang...
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QUESTION Dear Mr P6 Civils,I know you can promote activity codes in P6. What I want to know can you promote project codes to EPS codes and EPS codes to Global Codes or is it just promoting project codes to Global Codes. I have promoted codes before...
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QUESTIONDear Mr Risk,We run intensive risk workshops every month where we run through an ever growing register of what might go wrong and form all sorts of aspects – quality, finance, war!, subcontractor problems, flood, collapse, changes as well as ...
Hi, Would like to ask some help with regards to the image below. Have asked a subcontractor to provide an EOT and to use the latest update of the schedule without the baseline. I've noticed that in Primavera 8, the duration of the civil works doesn't...
QUESTION Dear Mr Risk,I have populated my schedule with optimistic and pessimistic durations that sit around the durations assigned in our proposed baseline. We have run our analysis package and produced a very nice ‘normal curve’ with various percen...
Dear All,My situation is now the project manager want me to change the planned start and finish dates for not started activities.My question is, In updating the schedule, can I change also the planned start and planned finish dates? Regards
Hi Everyone, I am levelling the resource in P6 but I dont know if it is correct one or not. Let me explain. I am looking at the "Resource usage profile" and I see that in some remaining columns, there are overallocated units. Then, I am click...
I am using P6 v8.2. I have one resource for all activites and I have not statused the schedule. I have changed any resource curves but even if I do, it does not seem to do anything. Why does my S-curve look like a set of steps? More pointedly, wh...
Hi Does anyone know the cost of single user licence from asta? just started as freelance. Thanks