How to define Resource Productivity in Primavera P6 and create schedule
6 years 21 weeks agoWhen create a schedule, we can based on Resource Productivity to estimate duration.
For example:
- We have a team which can cast 10 m3 of concrete per day (This is Productivity)
- We have an Foundation which take 100 m3 concrete.
- Duration of Foundation activity will be 100 / 10 = 10 days
Now we will do it in Primavera.
Supposed
Understanding the Planned Dates in Oracle Primavera P6
6 years 22 weeks agoBy Yaser A. Al-Bustanji CPCM, ACIArb, PMP, PMI-SP, PMI-RMP, November, 2017
Introduction
Of the many different types of date fields in Oracle® P6™, the most controversial and misleading dates are, "Planned Start" and "Planned Finish" dates of the activities.
There are several fields for start and finish dates in
The Importance of the Product Owner and the Product Backlog
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The
How to quickly identify Behind Schedule and Over Budget activity by Indicator UDF in Primavera P6
6 years 28 weeks agoIn Primavera P6, we can quickly identify behind schedule and over budget activity by using graphical indicator in User Defined Field.
I will show you how to do it.
Supposed that we have a project which has baseline. After update progress, we can show these column the see whether an activity is behind schedule:
- BL Project Finish : Activity finish date from Project
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6 years 29 weeks agoEffective communications are the cornerstone to successful projects and productive teams. The Agile Manifestoextolls the virtues of collaboration, individual interactions, and face-to-face communications. Projects represent our ability to coordinate the work of many people to accomplish a goal. It is no surprise that project
Driving Project Portfolio Risk & Opportunity Management for Benefit Realization
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This article illustrates the high-level components of Portfolio Risk & Opportunity Management. The risk is both threats and opportunity. The main goal is to minimize threats and maximize the opportunities for an organization.
How to assign resource / resource loading / make resource plan in Primavera P6
6 years 33 weeks ago Read more...Stakeholder Management: A Key to Project Success
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The PMI’s Pulse of the Professionsurvey found that projects with high executive
GAO is Wrong
6 years 34 weeks agoGAO IS WRONG:
Activities have hundreds of fields and many might still be active if you only change a few.
GAO Schedule Assessment Guide Best Practices for Project Schedules
Why so many poor schedules?
6 years 37 weeks agoWhy so many poor schedules?
Schedule logic is not the issue, what makes our schedule models so poor is how we deal with resources. Without resources nothing is done. Schedules that do not take into account all resource constraints are incomplete and most probably wrong.
We favor simplicity over substance and give the project manager very poor schedules he
