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using a winter calendar does not seem to help me, as activities are placed and the days default to 8 hour days. This can be switched in a global aspect (in the admin prefernces under activity duration, set default durations for new activities), but I do not want to do this, because I do not want other projects to be affected.

Does anyone know of a way I can change the default hours a day and week without affecting other projects in the program?

Paula,

Weather factoring is a big issue for my clients in the North Sea


There are only two ways to do this without extra software. Either as you suggested you change the calandar, or you add a dummy resource which has less availablility in winter, and resource level the plan.


The "correct" way to do this is with a probabalistic scheduling program, which would allow weather-factored calandars.

I used to use the Primavera program Monte Carlo, which allowed you to weather factor the P3 projects, but this is no longer available.

P3e does not have a resource-efficiency option either. It does support a third party probablistic anaysis program, Pertmaster, which can weather factor (it also does EVERYTHING else, and would be a huge learning curve just for this)

MY advice is go with the calandars. Set up several with 1,2,3,4,5 working hours per day. Create an activitity code so that you can quickly global change groups of activities to a new calandar for what if scenarios, e.g. "If WTHR=D, then CAL=4".

Dear Paula,

Me too, agree with what David suggested. Define your calendar. You can have your four working days, five or six working days a week, then use the What if senario or allocate it per activity, whatever. You also need to define the unit rate of your resources from normal to maximum and allocate it as well.

In addition prior to planning process, you have to determine the weather records of the place or the vicinity, the frequency of rains, snow,etc so that when defining your calendar you could also consider these data. Every calculation or scheduling (up-dating) you made in your programme it always consider what you have set.

Thank you very much! This is a great help!