Level of Effort and Critical Path

Interesting David, I’ll try that now

Just a last note; have you tried using a WBS Summary task? It mimics a WBS parent without being one AND can be on the Critical Path.

Gordon .... thanks for the tip on P6, it’s been quite annoying for years that a rollup has to be done again and again ........

Thanks guys, a colleague said I could drive the colour through coding. This is the best way forward for me now (even though I may have to revert to the WBS option - Plan B!!).



And I am trying to do it using the Activity ID but the filter changes ALL the LOE activity colours. How can I isolate just 1 activity? Also everytime I run the filter and then go back in ALL the settings go back to "all activities" ie it loses the settings I want and goes to default ..... why is that?

Hi



LOF is same as the old "Hammock" activity, it provide the summary effort of the linked activity, however, it cannot be a critical because simply is id not form part of the detail critical path.



To achieve what you wanted in a report format you can use coding to drive the LOE activities to turn RED color.



HTH



Alex

Dean,



I tend to just use the WBS, run a rolled up layout and where the WBS contains critical activities, they will show on the summary bar.



[The benefit of P6 being that you can save the ’roll-up level’ when you save the layout]

Hi, I’d like to know more about establishing a critical path using LOE bars. For example in a programme that has 1000+ activities that role up to say 50 LOE’s - it may be useful to show which LOE’s are ’representing’ critical activities



I’ve looked at creating a ’New’ LOE bar (with a filter) to go with the Remaining and Actual LOE’s - this looks tricky and may not be possible, before I waste a week doing this, has anyone else tried and succeeded????

Hi Seb,



As you said you have a Level OF Effort Activity,



Level of effort is not part o your critical path becouse its duration is defined base on your critical path Duration,

As an example , you have a project and you have security guard on site , you could not say Security guard is part of your Critical Path, becouse the duration of Perform security task is depend on your project Duration , the same for Services , Supervision ( In some cases) , PMO Offic





Good Luck



Hamed