Project Progress Percentage in P6

Hi Qasim

You can show the original baseline underneath the progressed line or you can set up columns with both  sets of dates or you can do both.

Best regards

Mike Testro

Thanx Mike.

My concern is not about te dates but the progres percentages and not for activiteis but for overall project. For an example we say planned progress was 55% and actual is 50% with negative variance of -5%. So how to get that in P6.

Regards,

Qasim

S Curves can give you the information you are looking and more. Comparing difference between actual and baseline % at DD is very limited as you can see in the following figure. From the following figure, at DD [Data Date] costs [can be % Costs, %progress] fall between early and late values, it does not tells you about projected Overrun/Delay, these values are diaplayed for dates latter than actual DD.

If you want more you shall look at the probabilities of success for Cost as well as for Project Finish. Do not count on these statistics be static.

Because the statistics are not static Success Probability Trends are needed to have a better view.

I used Spider Project to demonstrate the use and interpretation of Cumulative or S Curves, the principles remain the same for all jobs no matter what software.

The S Curves are generated directly by Spider Project.

The risk charts are also from Spider Project, these are runs that represent true risk from the original schedule, not like with other software that import from a different software/version whose resource leveling and other functionalities such as use lag calendars, use of constraints and a few others are implemented differently, not all inconsistencies can be fixed by changing a few software options as some vendors will suggest.

I do not use P6 but using Google found the following links that shows a way to generate the data for creating S Curves.

http://primaverarena.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/S-curve-creation-for-P6.pdf

The following links provides some tutorials that might be of interest and perhaps showing a different approach.

http://www.toolboxforplanning.com/p/tutorials.html

http://www.toolboxforplanning.com/2010/10/excel-2003-tutorial-creating-progress-s_16.html

You can download their template or a modified version I just created to include early and late banana curves from the following link.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ekc33bya2nd44e4

Good luck,

Rafael

Hi Qasim,

If you updated civil construction then go with Physical progress %.

Sudarshan

Hi Rafael,

I tried to create the S-Curve sample using the pdf file you have attached here. I did get everything exactly same until selecting Columns, Group & Sort & filter. But then after I don’t get that date options where I can select the time frame and time interval fields. I am straight away getting name he resource and finish. If I run that report it will only give me name of the resources but not the data as I can’t assign fields for this report. I am using P6 V7. Can you please tell me if there is anything different I need to do or any other way I can assign these two missing fields to my report to complete?

Thanks

Nilkamal

pls how the total progress percent can b calculated for certain progect after giving the progress percent for each activity

regards