Forecasting Multiple projects in P6
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Greeting All,
I've been assign a task in the company to create forecasting for small projects ranged from $50k to $1.6mm. Approximately 20-25 projects. We are dealing with resource shortage and in order to justify it, need to generate and keep track of the hours for the next 3 mos. so I can show my COO that we need more people. Also, it will help my engineers to know what they have to work on each week vs. jumping on several projects all at once and pulling their hair out. I really want to improve planning and processes.
I've been learning P6 everyday for the last 3 months after work and need opinion if I should may be use addional spreadsheet to forecast for the next 6 mos. Any help, any tools will help.
Thank you all so very much!
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Oldest first- 0Dieter Wambach ·
Hi Val Welcome to
Hi Val
Welcome to PlanningPlanet.
You can do this in P6.
1st: If you'll open multiple projects in P6, it will regard and calculate them as if they would be one single project - but you can influence by the schedule options.
2nd: Resource planning for multiple projects in my opinion is one of the strengths of P6 - I know that there are more and different opinions. Please study the reference manual within part 3 the sections beginning with: "Assigning Resources and Roles".
3rd: The print functions in Excel is better, but any P6 report can produce a spread sheet in csv-format - i.e. a spreadsheet. There is no need to do a spredsheet planning.
Good luck!
Dieter
p.s.: I never met a COO who likes to hire more people.
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