Hi All,I have the following scenario to discuss.1. In the schedule, through the Path 1 the Employer delay event impact the progress of the Contractor. The Contractor uses heavy machine (high rent cost) to execute the activity. Due to the delay by Emp...
My recent blog article, “Ten Amendments to the Current Practice of Project Management,” has generated a lot of good discussion and positive feedback. I’ve therefore decided to follow it up with articles that explore each of the “amendments” in more d...
Hi there,I will try to cut this short as possible:Based in the UK. I am looking for a career change: I have a masters in Urban Planning and a humanities related BA degree. I then worked in marketing, account management, and then set up my own busines...
Here's a step-by-step guide on how to update schedule progress in Microsoft Project 2013 http://ow.ly/Ku64K
hi all, I've developped a tool a few years ago, that allowed planner colleagues to enter daily follow-up by scanning barcodes.this tool is still used today, but it's a pain in the ass partly because of the use of excel files to import/export from P6....
Hi,Hopefully someone here will be able to help.I'm working on a project with a baseline that matches the approved client changes for reporting purposes. We are just about to apply new hourly rates to our labour resources (new rates from effective dat...
Currently I'm working on a project where I review a subcontractor's P6 schedule and implement their update when I submit mine to the client. When I import their project into my machine, I hit re-calculate and their Substantial Completion date changes...
Hello Everyone, I am studying Quantity Surveying at Coventry University. As part of my final year dissertation, I am carrying out this survey about project planning. It would be very helpful if you could complete this short project planning survey by...
I’ve posted a new blog referencing Bill Gates’s article in Thursday’s (March 18, 2015) New York Times titled “How to Fight the Next Epidemic: The Ebola Crisis Was Terrible. But Next Time Could Be Much Worse.” The blog article can be found here: Altho...
We had a call from someone who had become frustrated with trying to change the Primavera P6 Gantt chart gridlines for printout. If you didn’t know, the Gridlines toggle in the print page setup dialog only controls the gridlines of the activity table;...
Contractor A has a large construction project in the middle of nowhere. The logistics route from the nearest available port to the workfront is >1,500km long and in poor condition, and will have to carry something like 200,000 tonnes of plant, equipm...
Just an occasional usser of MS Project 2010, but I always need to print gantt charts. Just today, as I am trying to make the chart fit, I select a printer that does 11x17 and color and I start playing with page setup settings, then I notice that I ...
I want to find out what relationships have been added / deleted from a previous schedule. What is the best (or fastest) way of doing this automatically, without having to review them one by one, visually, manually, etc.?
Dear PM Professionals!I am in process of selecting thesis for my MS (Project management) Degree. My basic job involve Cost Estimation and Cost Control in construction industry of saudi arabia. I want to make thesis either in Cost Estimation or Cost C...
Dear all,Please help me out in couple of queries1) I have budgeted labour, budgeted non labour (equipment hrs) units for each activity in project. when i calculate progress based on budgeted units alone do i have to consider only labour units as this...
Hi,When we revise links and add activities to our original baseline to make it revised baseline, how to copy the actual dates from the updated schedule to reflect on the new (re linked) schedule?Re applying actuals one by one for hundreds of activiti...
Dear Experts,We have a program fully loaded with cost and manpower. The problem that we are facing right now is that lots of costs that were loaded to the program are not spreading to the entire duration of the activity. Can anyone share his knowledg...
Hii,I get 0 duration % complete for one particular set of activity codes at the WBS level, but all other activities which are in progress/ completed rolls up to some value in the WBS level.The activity type assiged is Fixed Durations & Units for all ...
One of the hardest things to do is to stop wasting money and resources on a losing proposition, emotions, biases and focusing on simple but irrelevant measures can all lead to bad decisions. A proper consideration of ‘sunk costs’ can help eliminate ...
If you've been trying to display the Total Float of Activities on the Gantt Chart in Primavera P6....here's how to do it http://ow.ly/KMhd3