Multi-schedule Program Summary Bar Cost Buckets - what does not work, what does? PPM vs EPPM vs cloud vs citrix? I feel like this has changed lately and that each of the 4 variants of P6 allow different bucket level of costs? Can I put costs on Su...
Assumptions and risks are embedded in our daily lives. We expect the day will unfold as planned, and risks will not materialize. Most of these assumptions are benign, like thinking the weather report will be accurate; or no major calamities will oc...
Hi my friends,I would like to discuss some cases that I faced today. I'm leveling material from Spider but, I think that algorithm always considers that if you do not use the material in each period the same material goes to another period for use. T...
The date formats available in Primavera P6 are very limited and to best of my knowledge, you cannot get the mmm-yy (month-year) format straight out of the box. You might want to display dates in mmm-yy if you don't want to show exact dates in issued ...
Hi All, How do I prove, or find out, what date is actually reported in the formula DD+1m? Lets say my Data Date is 25th November 2021 00:00 will DD+1m return 25th December 2021 00:00 or will it count how many days in the month of November or December...
Hello,I'm trying to produce reports for a group of unrelated schedules. I am using P6 Pro v20. Example provide a list of project names, start date and end date and % complete of all projects in the EPS by project type. Maybe pick out a few milestones...
Hi All, We have been asked to change our financial periods for 2022 in P6 V17.12, when we try and do this we get an error saying that some actuals have been stored in these periods, this has obviously been done in error.I have scanned the projects an...
In order to figure it out what is delaying an activity links and resource dependencies are not enough when leveling materials and financial resources, it is the Reason of delay field what gives me this information. There are several places where you ...
How to send or receive an XER without sending or getting extra codes, calendars, etc from a large system? I know that if you use something of other than an xer you have more control but I am trying to keep it simple. From what I recall you CANNOT c...
I am using version 18.8 P6 version issue? Edit, User Pref., Application - why do only some versions show "Codes" value vs description choice? I have seen snapshots on Linkedin of the choice "Specify how to display code values" - I do not get the cho...
Project managers rarely face ethical dilemmas. We generally do not make life-or-death decisions or need to choose between “right” and “wrong.” However, we need to be prepared and have a framework for confronting these circumstances when they arise....
So to calc a completion date in excel that includes the NTP date itself is @sum((A1+A2)-1) because excel does not count the NTP date in that formula. With a A1 being the NTP date and A2 being that Calendar Days. Are there any other, or different fo...
Hi, I have seen a couple of spreashsheets created that estimated days /month or days/activity that a project is likley to lose from different weather conditions such as below.or Both of these do a job but I am wanting to create something that has a b...
Hi,I have imported a file without its baseline. But I see baseline start/finishes dates are different than project start/finish dates. I checked there is no assigned baseline. I expect if there is no baseline assigned to the project then baseline dat...
I am managing two different projects for different clients in P6 that require the schedules to be published every week. The clients require different column headers and so far I have had to keep changing the headers when I go to publish each project...
Hi everyone, I am hoping to further advance my career in PC, and was wondering if anyone taken the CCT (certified cost technician exam), and if it helped with their career? Was the exam difficult and heavily math oriented (one of the study text books...
Here is what I think it has to do with - the default setting for each project is "shared". I change it to exclusive it to exclusive and open it. But when I close and look at it again all the files default back to shared. My guess is that P6 is not...
Always been in scheduling. Been in and out of cost, getting back into cost. There have got to be better tools out there than just excel - what are better ones for cost? For example, I don't want a "whole" system like procore because already using ...
After a number of years working in Project Controls, and several organisations, I can get my head around Planning and Resources but what i see constant in-fighting, division and confusion around is just how Actual Costs and how actual costs are align...
Hello,I have a task under MSProject which corresponds to an action whose duration does not depend on the number of resources. I would like to integrate resources on this task gradually.On the first day, 2 resources are on the task, 3 more the next da...