On a scale of (perfectly ok) 1 - 10 (Never) - How bad is it to change activity ID's on large projects...I am reviewing a large project and the contractor has changed 500 of the 2200 activity IDs. I is a job that they are strugling with creating a sc...
Hello, I'm assigning resources to activities on my plan and as the project has not started yet I would expect the remaining units to be the same as the budgeted units. So basically if I have a 5 day duration activity and the resource will work 20 hou...
Greetings to All.I am making a schedule on P6 in which my project original duration appears to be very less. But whenever i check "hide if empty" in group and sort tab, It shows the project's correct original duration. Is there something wrong with m...
Dear Frndswhile updating the programm (At completion units) will be change. how can i fix it?can you explain me details?i am waiting your valuable reply.Thanks.....
Best % type & Duration Type or mix for large construction projects? What works best while keeping it simple. Using too many types means that you have to open up the type & multiple columns to understand the numbers and to explain to PM’s. It can be...
Best % type & Duration Type or mix for large construction projects? What works best while keeping it simple. Using too many types means that you have to open up the type & multiple columns to understand the numbers and to explain to PM’s. It can be...
Hi All,I am a very experienced Asta Powerproject user, curently working as a planner for a civil engineering company in Hampshire.If anyone is looking for any freelance planning done please feel free to contact me at any time.Kind regards,Charlotte
Hi All,I am a very experienced Asta Powerproject user, curently working as a planner for a civil engineering company in Hampshire.If anyone is looking for any freelance planning done please feel free to contact me at any time.Kind regards,Charlotte
Mind Map is a graphical and pictorial illustration of the interrelated ideas for a common goal or objective. It truly makes its mark for empowering imagination to produce new theme of ideas. Mind Mapping drives people, with a multi-dimensional approa...
Hey All,I am so intrested to know your experience in having multiple planners for a single project. I am thinking about all of the risks which are associated with having about 8-10 planners from different locations for a single schedule in a share da...
Why Projects Fail-a primer on mass mismanagemnetStatistics cite chronic and epidemic delay and overspend in the building industry is only getting worse over time. Naturally, the bigger the headache, the bigger the pill, and the Olympic Games are a ho...
We use claim digger report for delay analysis. However, recently when noticed, the lag values shown in Claim digger is not showing correct value. For example in the programme for comparision if it shows a lag value of FS 3, claim digger shows a value...
Window analysis technique;As a common practice in Window analysis, delay events are inserted in the impacted schedule and then determined the impact of delay events on project completion for that particular window period. Then progress is being updat...
Microsoft Project’s timescale feature has the functionality to display ordinal dates on the Gantt chart. Although a little involved, it’s possible to display ordinal day columns in the task table. Here we show you how it's done http://ow.ly/ePjQ303b1...
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It may be very newbie question. I am using MS Project. I want to know how to track a task with two different resources. How can we calculate man hour or progresses of this task when there are two resources. For example, my task is from civil engineer...
Hello Everyone - I am fairly new to primavera and project planning in general. Up until recently, I have only been tasked with maintains project plans that has already been created. But a couple of days ago i was tasked with detailing out an existing...
Does P6 allow us to change the default activity type from FS to SS, FF, FS when linking multiple activities?Thanks
Standard deviation is an abstract concept derived from observation rather than calculation or experimentation. The standard deviation (SD, also represented by the Greek letter sigma or σ) is a measure that is used to quantify the amount of variation...
Primavera P6 give us an option to decide that Baseline date is equal to Planned date or Current date.The main purpose of this option is for Earned Value calculation.I’ll explain that option in this article.We have a simple project containing 3 activi...