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How to perform Impacted As-Planned Delay Analysis in Primavera P6

The Impacted As-Planned method measures the impact of the delays on the as-planned schedule. The delays are formulated as activities and added to the as-planned schedule showing the effect of each delay and demonstrating how the project is being delayed. The amount of delay equals the difference in

8 Nov 2016 · Khuong Do · 1 min read

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Create P6 resources dictionary using excel without using SDK

The SDK (Software Development Kit) is an awesome tool that allow P6 database to connect to excel and exchange information in order to create the schedule using excel. But sometimes the SDK is not installed on the Primavera machine and the scheduler doesn’t have the privilege to install it or the res

23 Sept 2016 · Assem Osman · 3 min read

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How to update Baseline in Primavera P6

Baseline is something we usually do not change. However in some case we need to change it.I will show you how to do it.

8 Sept 2016 · Khuong Do · 1 min read

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Detect changes made to calendars between two projects in P6

The Claim digger or Schedule Comparison is a widely used tool in P6 to compare between two projects and detect the differences.One of the main shortage of the Claim Digger or the Schedule Comparison tool is detecting the changes in calendars.The tool will not detect any revisions in calendars workin

6 Sept 2016 · Assem Osman · 4 min read

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Determine the longest path of a resource leveled schedule in P6

Unfortunately when it comes to resources and resource leveling, P6 model is absolute. P6 doesn’t calculate the float correctly and the longest path will not be accurate since the late and early dates will not change after leveling.Primavera P6 doesn’t take in consideration the new dates after the le

25 Aug 2016 · Assem Osman · 6 min read

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The story behind the negative float in P6

The negative float is a very popular hot topic in the scheduling field and it’s generated when the late dates are less than the early dates and usually it’s accompanied with a delay in the project, and a lot of project management professionals think that the only reason for a negative float is becau

25 Aug 2016 · Assem Osman · 2 min read

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How does Progress Line in Primavera P6 work?

Primavera provide a tool called Progress Line to compare Actual Progress (Activity % Complete) with Baseline on Gantt chart.I will show you how to do it.

22 Aug 2016 · Khuong Do · 2 min read