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Once you’ve developed planned value data, the next step is to calculate earned value from the lowest activities to track overall project progress. To measure project progress, list the activities (including WBS) with budgeted hours or cost. See the picture below to understand how you can track the overall progress of the various disciplines – piping and structure. The simple

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You may think creating progress s curve for a project that involved multiple disciplines sounds overwhelming, but with the steps by steps tutorial, it couldn’t be easier. Learn how you can set up the progress S Curve in a few minutes. Once all activities have been identified and assigned value ̶ budgeted cost or hours and a milestone system established, getting planned values, earned values

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In Part 2, I have shared the first three tips of STEP 1, S Curvelogy technique - determining the appropriate time scale interval, evaluating percent complete and the basis of S curve data whether to use hours, cost or weighting to get planned and earned value. Once you went through this POST, you would learn how to get the Planned/Earned Value and determine Percent Complete which are foundation

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In Part 1, I have shared the three simple steps for using “S Curvelogy”. Today, I’m going to share the first one. Step 1: Figure out how you would get progress data that you can plot S Curve S Curvelogy technique is so easy and simple. It is asking and answering the following five questions; 1. What is the appropriate time scale interval? 2. How can I come out with a percent compete (

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The benefits of having a progress S curve is you are enabled to track project performance to create a visual way to plot information. Instead of going through numerous reports containing information about your project status, you can track your project performance as a whole in an instant just by figuring it out on the Progress S Curve. - If DONE right, by using S Curve, you can get an

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Did you want to earn a PMI-SP credential and have tried but have yet to achieve it? Or didn’t know where to start? All you need is coaching, some help, assistance, and a little support. All you need is some insights, strategies, and resources that will open the key to a whole new future for you.The good news is that you can learn the lessons learned and the resources I use, so you can save time

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I like using SAP as you could select multiple rows of data, copy it to the clipboard and then use this list to search. However, in MAXIMO, it’s is not that easy. Say you have a large list of Work Orders that you want to search and export that data to Excel to perform some other analysis, how would you do this? I recently came across a macro that can be used to do this and hope that you find this

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Prepare Schedule Analysis Filters Primavera P6 Filters Most Used in Schedule Reporting (Activity Filtering)-Part1 tutorial has been published in the past and we have discussed how to build Lookahead filters. This is the second part that we will discuss on Schedule Analysis Filters. If you are working on level3 schedule, it involves baseline schedule quality assessment and analysing

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Suppose you are working on a project or maintenance schedule with thousands of activities, then you might want to make the report (layout) for the activities scheduled to start in next 3 weeks, weekly plan(weekly progress status) report, executive summary report, milestone reports, traffic-light report, and schedule analysis reports and so on. You can set the criteria that determine which

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There are three easy ways to count the number of activities in P6, whether you are curious to know the total activities for the entire project or the total number of activities for individual WBS, Activity Code and filter results.  You should be able to answer the following questions if you know how to count the number of project activities, (1) Total project activities (2) Total

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A tutorial on how to maintain and assign baseline for Primavera P6 has been published on last week. After a baseline is saved, you should be able to see baseline bar against current project bars if your activity layout setting is right. This tutorial covers how to show primary baseline bar, project baseline bar against the current project status bar as well as progress line. Project team

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This post is especially meant for beginner P6 users. Some of our readers shared they can’t fix the baseline to stay on the original planned data. The baseline dates move every time whenever the data date is changed. This is because you has not defined the Project Baseline.  A quick way to check whether you have defined a baseline for P6 is, Open your project, then go to “Project” on

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Sample WBS for piping construction project for a refinery or chemical plant may be organized as the following. It is worth to be organized by location wise (i.e. platform and pipe rack, platform and equipment around piping) prior to “Phase” WBS. Timely completion of piping construction is not only depending on timely receiving of engineering drawings and materials from Owner/EPC Contractor but

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Oil and Fuel Storage tanks (API 650 design) are typically used in petrochemical plants. They are large field fabricated storage tanks operating at low pressures or atmospheric pressures. There are various types of tanks such as fixed roof tanks and floating roof tanks, etc. Tank bottom is usually constructed of overlapping steel plates welded by manual or automatic welding technique. Tank shells

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Once a suitable network has been developed, with duration and resources assigned to all activities, it is necessary to review the longest path through the project before baseline schedule is established. Scheduling Software will simply tell you where the longest path or critical paths are. Normally, a critical path should be extended from the beginning to the end of a project. Review the longest

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Activity with no predecessor or successor in the schedule does not drive the whole project. With the exceptional case, there may be some activities without predecessor or successor such as project start milestone, project finish milestone and an external link activity such as civil work completion of other project. For example; equipment delivery on site date (equipment supplied by Owner/EPCm

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While Retained Logic and Progress override are the two options available in P6 which enable the scheduler to analyse in different scenarios, each option has advantages and disadvantages. Retained Logic Option Advantages It produces the most realistic schedule if the levels of detailed information are available and schedule logic were design appropriately. It maintains all predecessor

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Many of us use constraints which impost a date on finish or start of an activity/milestone especially on major event (i.e. equipment delivery date, subcontractor’s foundation completion date, contract award date, project completion date, etc. ) in schedule as Primavera P6 schedule date might be changing whenever we schedule. And it is not feasible to readjust those date changes again and again.

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Global change feature in Primavera P6 helps you to make changes the selected activities or all the activities. Suppose you might want to change its Activity ID and Name (activity description) using Global change as and when required. In order to demonstrate this tutorial, assume that the following are the existing Activity ID and Name (description).

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The schedule bar chart is a key to your team. Creating a user-friendly schedule layout that is readable and easily understandable for the users is one of the main tasks of planning, scheduling, and project controls professionals. Hundreds of layouts can be made depending on recipients’ requirements by changing the appearance of the schedule bar chart. You may wish to highlight the significant

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Before new resources are added into P6, the following items are to be considered. (1)  Define the trade of resource required. For instance, steel erection fitter, 25 tons crane may be required for steel structure erection work. See Steps to Estimate Activity Resource Unit(Budgeted Labor Unit)   (2)  Check the contractual working hours per day. For example, according

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The sequence of steps producing budgeted labor unit of each activity as follows; Study design and construction methodology It is assumed that you are a mechanical construction contractor. You got a project requires installing a pipe rack for a chemical plant. Construction drawings are provided by engineering contractor. According to layout drawings and isometric drawings, a layer of pipe

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Manufacturing work steps and activities are defined depends upon on the scope of pressure vessel components, type of materials and inspection. The following is a sample work activities for a Carbon Steel material cylindrical or spherical separator pressure vessel manufacturing. This will help you develop a preliminary schedule. The full scope of work, inspection test plan and method of statement

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The following figure is a simple schedule comparison report for dates and duration that could be used to communicate to your team where your project status is. How to make this layout? 1.       Develop the baseline schedule that is agreed upon by your team. 2.       Maintain and assign a baseline to your current project. 3.&

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