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How does Primavera P6 calculate Planned Value Cost for Activities without linear distribution (using Resource Curves or Manual plan) in Earned Value Management

When we use Earned Value Management technique, we focus on:Planned Value Cost (PV) = Budget At Completion * Schedule % CompleteEarned Value Cost (EV) = Budget At Completion * Performance % Complete (usually equal to Activity % Complete)Schedule Variance (SV) = EV - PVSV > 0 : project is good, ahead

17 Feb 2018 · Khuong Do · 2 min read

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Oracle Primavera P6 Professional – Get Filter Savvy

How to Mix the ‘And’ and the ‘Or’ Options in One FilterBuilding a filter where all the conditions are either ‘And’ or ‘Or’ between each row is pretty straight forward. However, if you want to mix them up a little it’s not so obvious how you should do that in Oracle Primavera P6 Professional. This ar

14 Feb 2018 · Emily Foster · 1 min read

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The 1, 2, 3 of Primavera P6 Baselines

Primavera P6 Professional allows you to assign up to three user baselines and one project baseline per project. The following article explains these capabilities and how they can be helpful in tracking the overall status of a project and near-term interim variance reports.Take a look at the followin

23 Jan 2018 · Emily Foster · 3 min read

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Merry Christmas from Primavera P6

From Primavera P6 with love :-) You can download the Project and the Layout from here : https://doduykhuong.com/2017/11/25/merry-christmas-from-primavera-p6/

21 Dec 2017 · Khuong Do · 1 min read

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Calculations of Summary Original Durations in Primavera P6

By Yaser A. Al-Bustanji CPCM, ACIArb, PMP, PMI-SP, PMI-RMP, November, 2017IntroductionThis article is a simple guide to understand the data stored in the P6 Original Duration fields that appear in all summary bands such as Project, WBS, Resources and Activity Codes.

27 Nov 2017 · Yaser A. Al-Bustanji · 2 min read

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How to define Resource Productivity in Primavera P6 and create schedule

When 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 daysNow we will do it in

24 Nov 2017 · Khuong Do · 1 min read