The June issue of PM Network is out and it includes a great review by Gary Heerkens of my book Managing Projects as Investments: Earned Value to Business Value. I have written a blog article about it that includes the link to the magazine. I've also ...
Hi all,I need help on P6 scheduling. I have a project which starts on Dec. 2015 and after inserting the activities I press F9 and selecting data date which is in Dec. 2015, the activity is registred as having started as I see on the activity informat...
Hi all,I need help on P6 scheduling. I have a project which starts on Dec. 2015 and after inserting the activities I press F9 and selecting data date which is in Dec. 2015, the activity is registred as having started as I see on the activity informat...
The first-ever Guest Blog is now up at the Total Project Control website, available for reading and discussion. It is by Blake Sedore, the manufacturing engineer whose recently published MIT thesis on using critical path drag analysis to accelerate s...
Dear All,I was trying to prepare the resource table directly from P6 as follows;1. Site No.11.1 Manpower1.1.1. Manpower-11.1.2. Manpower-21.2. Machinery1.2.1. Equipment-11.2.2. Equipment-22. Site No.22.1. Manpower2.1.1. Manpower-12.1.2. Manpower-22.2...
Anyone using Tools/Publish/Project Web Site from a stand-alone (P6 R15.1 Professional)? Any thoughts? Links? Thanks.
What are the ways to adjust Out-of-Sequence Activities in your project ? Do we need to change the relationships, if it does then how to make these changes in a baseline ? please help me with the procedure. Thanks in advance.
Here we describe and demonstrate how to create personal calendars for resources specifically to track their availability and planned vacation time off http://ow.ly/NUQkb
I had formatted my computer so I had to installl primavera p6 ppm againi have 8.4 versionwhen i click print it only gives me the option to print to : Microsoft XPS Document WriterSend to One NoteFaxThis is allI have no printer connected yet but how c...
I just posted a new blog article titled “Why Won’t We Recognize the Value/Cost of Time?” This article discusses how blind our entire project management profession is (including PM software!) to the critical need to estimate what the cost is of late c...
Hi All,How to create two EPC in one project?Thank you.
What is the easiest and most affordable way to integrate P6 with visualisation software to create 4D planning simulations?
Im new into P6 and have issues linking construction activities for villa project....the company is aware of my status and has given me a grace of two month...any video reccommendation with focus on constuction activity sequence and relationships.
Afternoon all :) I have a P6 v8.4 programme in which a material resource has been used to generate cost. as we are working ot an activity schedule, all costs have to be allocated at the finish of the task.My problem is that any time th eduration vari...
How many are reading all of the technical articles concerning CCPM (Critical Chain Project Method)? What is everyone's thought on this?
What support does your PMO provide at project setup? I was hoping for a poll, but no such luck. What I'd like to know is how you initially determine your project duration and initial estimate. Actually, I'm looking for the step or two after you recei...
Hello, I hope I'm posting in the right section.My question is, How do I control Contractor schedule as a consultant, while I should do cost control on myself (as consultant) for the same project?If I speak my mind, I'd say, I can do one of the follow...
I just posted a a new blog article. It’s titled “Project Management and Senior Management: Reconciling Their Needs.” You can find it here. This article discusses why there is often such a chasm between the views and needs of project managers and thos...
A new thread was posted two days ago on my website's new Discussion FORUM by a guy named Thomas Boyle. It explains that it has enhanced its Logic Analyzer software add-on to MSP to include critical path drag calculation.Needless to say, I am delighte...
Hi All,I am a fresh planner and very recently my boss allowed me to start updating the program. The issue is that i am having a baseline and recovery programs and i have to update same activities twice which consumes a lot of time, bcoz first i updat...