What is the difference between adding a lot of activities to your schedule and making one activity that includes the several types of required work and calling it an activity step? And which is better, steps or lots of activities? …
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Introduction What if you need to change your Activity ID in Primavera P6 to make a unique Activity ID and make it very Specific your current ID is A007 and you want to change it to Con-A1-FF-A007, with a few …
You need to open the project with updates. Export the activity updates in Excel. Choose “Activities” and Click on “Next”. Check on “Modify” options then “Next”. Make sure that these columns are the selected options then “OK”. Choose the …
One of our students in the “Projects Planning with P6 -Intermediate Level” course, sent us a question that he is adding progress updates to his time schedule, either by changing the % complete of the activity or by changing the …
In today’s fast-paced business environment, data-driven decision-making is more critical than ever. Project managers and stakeholders rely on accurate and insightful data to track and manage their projects effectively. Everyone is in a hurry and top management needs to see …
New method to convert any primavera P6 WBS to activity codes without using the SDK old method. Using the attached sheet, you can save hours of manual work using this smart technique. 1- Copy the WBS from Oracle Primavera P6 …
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Let me share with you a short story, few days ago i have been asked from a client to recommend a Senior Planning Engineer to work in one Project in Saudi Arabia. Accordingly, i made an advertisement in the job …
Early curve and late curve are important outputs from Oracle Primavera P6. I have received the following question from my course trainee: “Continuation to our discussion and current subjected query can you please advise how to prepare Early curve and …
Assigning Resources to Oracle Primavera P6 time schedule could be very time consuming task without the help of MS Excel. In this article i will explain a step by step how you could save lot of working hours by using …
Activities without predecessors and activities without successor in the primavera P6 schedule are known as open-end activities. This is one of the checkpoints to any construction schedule to have all your activities properly assigned together except the project start date and project …
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