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Creating deliverable milestones within a work activity....explained below.

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I have an activity of work which has a defined begining date and duration. For this work there are several deliverable document items. I have set these as start miletones and related to the work activity with a start to start relationshbip.  The documents themselves don't alweays have successors but I don't want to leave an open end and thought i would coule make a Finish to Finish activity with the work activity. However P6 not letting me do that. I have never come accross this and not sure how to deal with it. i do need to show the deliverables as activities with milestone dates to track progress and of course some do have significant successor ties but not all.   

 

any guidance / suggestions appreciated.

 

work activity (5 weeks) 

SS deliverable milestone A

SS deliverable milestone B

SS Deliverable milestone C

 

a,b, and c need to be completed before the work activity can end.

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    Zoltan Palffy ·
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    make a new activity D give it

    make a new activity D give it 0 days but keep the activity tyep as TASK not start milestone then you can tie to this

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    Tom Boyle ·
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    Brian,You seem to be

    Brian,

    You seem to be attempting circular logic.  I.e. Work Activity >(SS)> Deliverable A >(FF)> Work Activity.  P6 won't let you do that.

    Suggestions, either:

    1. Break Work Activity into a Start portion and a Finish portion, then tie your deliverables in.

    2. Enter your deliverables as Steps on the work activity rather than milestones.

    Good luck, tom

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    Brian Walkin ·
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    OK, so i changed the

    OK, so i changed the activityies from milestons to activities. P6 allowed me (ONCE) to create a SS predecessor  and a FF successor with the main activity. However it allowed me to do it in one place but not in others. I read in an Old P3 textbook that this was a hammock activity / relationship.

    What are the rules for creating this relationship. I do not see any difference bewteen the two areas of the schedule. one allows the other doesn't.  I thought it was that i used a milestone rather than a Task dependent activity type but that isnt the difference. 

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    Brian Walkin ·
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    Thanks for replying. I did

    Thanks for replying. I did clarify in a second post but somewhere above, not sure how the forum posts work. I keep posting twice as well.

    I think what you describe and say isnt allowed is what I described as the hammock activity. While I still don't see why it isn't allowed as it is a real situation - P6 did let me do it in one place not in others. I would like to understand why.

     

    I don't like the option of placing them as work steps as we lose visability in the schedule. 

     

    Thanks Agsin

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    Zoltan Palffy ·
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    you said "P6 did let me do it

    you said "P6 did let me do it in one place not in others. I would like to understand why."

    look at where it let you do it

    what was the activity type

    was the predcessors a SS realtionship ?

    was the successor a FF relationship

    was the precdessor a start milestone ?

    was the predcesssor a finish milestone

    was the successor a start milestone

    was the successor a finish milestone ?

    was the predcessor and or sucessor a LOE activitiy type. 

    look at where it worked in detail and then look for any anomolies of where you want to use it again and see what the differences are. 

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    Rafael Davila ·
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    As a workaround consider

    As a workaround consider using FF links with ALAP logic.

    ALAP-logic click the image and zoom.

    Good Luck

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