Rightly or wrongly we are dealing with a program where the update process involves using expected finishes...
During the course of this we have come across a ’feature’ in P6 that seems on the surface to be a little bit odd. The effect can be replicated in a standalone new plan.
There are two activities, with a finish to finish relationship - "finish activity 1 before finishing activity 2".
Activity 1- 100hrs duration
Activity 2- 1hr duration
Scheduling without the "use expected finishes" box ticked places activity 2 ’at the end’ of activity 1 so that they finish at the same time.
However, if an expected finish is now put on activity 2 that ’forces’ it to finish at the end of activity 1, and then schedule with "use expected finishes" ticked then P6 increases the original & remaining durations so that activity 2 is still finishing ’at the end’ of activity 1, but now starting on the data date.
Can anybody replicate this outside of my organisation? Is this behaviour what you would expect?
During the course of this we have come across a ’feature’ in P6 that seems on the surface to be a little bit odd. The effect can be replicated in a standalone new plan.
There are two activities, with a finish to finish relationship - "finish activity 1 before finishing activity 2".
Activity 1- 100hrs duration
Activity 2- 1hr duration
Scheduling without the "use expected finishes" box ticked places activity 2 ’at the end’ of activity 1 so that they finish at the same time.
However, if an expected finish is now put on activity 2 that ’forces’ it to finish at the end of activity 1, and then schedule with "use expected finishes" ticked then P6 increases the original & remaining durations so that activity 2 is still finishing ’at the end’ of activity 1, but now starting on the data date.
Can anybody replicate this outside of my organisation? Is this behaviour what you would expect?