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1) : Types of Calendar in Primavera?

Here are three key steps to estimate the duration of an activity: 1. Decompose the activity into specific tasks. Break down high-level activities into smaller, more manageable tasks. This helps identify individual work items. 2. Estimate the effort required for each task. Determine how long each task will take based on its scope, complexity, resources assigned, and any other relevant factors. Common units are hours, days or weeks. 3. Account for uncertainties and contingencies. Activities rarely go exactly as planned. Pad task estimates to account for uncertainties, contingencies, resources constraints, approval delays, and other potential issues. Also consider dependencies between tasks. Some additional tips when estimating durations: gather historical data from

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1) : Types of Calendar in Primavera?

Here are three key steps to estimate the duration of an activity: 1. Decompose the activity into specific tasks. Break down high-level activities into smaller, more manageable tasks. This helps identify individual work items. 2. Estimate the effort required for each task. Determine how long each task will take based on its scope, complexity, resources assigned, and any other relevant factors. Common units are hours, days or weeks. 3. Account for uncertainties and contingencies. Activities rarely go exactly as planned. Pad task estimates to account for uncertainties, contingencies, resources constraints, approval delays, and other potential issues. Also consider dependencies between tasks. Some additional tips when estimating durations: gather historical data from

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1): Types of calendar In Primavera?

There are three types of calendar in Primavera P6; Global Calendar, Resource calendar, and Project calendar.

Global Calendar: Global calendar is grossly applied for the whole projects scheduled in it.

Resource Calendar: Resource Calendar is like personal calendar which is applied on to a custom resource like if you
want to assign resource calendar to excavator that how much working days you want to assign to it.

Project Calendar: Project Calendar is specifically designed for project only. All the scheduling will be according to that
calendar.

2): Formatting Of columns and time scales?

Formatting of columns and time scale can be easily edited from column just click on column and then add all the
desire options for your ease of access just clicking on Left and right arrows. You ca do formatting like increasing the
width of columns and their alignment by pushing it to center, left or right side.

Time Scale is to customize time mentioned in the Gantt chart view. It can be changed it week/day, Day/hour, and
also quarterly etc.

3): Percentage complete types in Primavera P6?

In percentage complete types activity status shows three options;

Not Started (Activity is not yet started 0%), In Progress (Activity Completed from 0-100%), and Completed (Activity
Completed 100%).

Three types of Percentage Complete which are Duration % Complete, Unit % Complete and Physical % Complete.

Duration % Complete: Original Duration-Remaining Duration/Original Duration=10-3/10=70%

Physical % Complete: It can be any value you have to find it by yourself. It depends on how much work is done on
that day or the same day. Using formula of duration % complete.

Unit % Complete: (Actual Units/Actual + Remaining Units)*100

For Example: You have two resources excavator and operator which is assigned to to an activity. Budgeted units for
the resource are 160h. Now assume that 80h(Actual) are served for both the resources, further assume that
100h(Remaining) are require to fulfill the activity.

Unit %= (Actual Units / Actual + Remaining Units)*100= (80+80/160-200)*100=44%

Actual Units= As we have two resources 80+80=160

Remaining Units= As we have to resources 100+100=200.

4): Types of Activity?

We have Five types of activity in Primavera P6 which are Task dependent, Resource dependent, Start milestone,
Finish Mile Stone, and level of Effort.

Start mile Stone: Start mile stone is the start of the project and have zero duration.

Finish Mile stone: finish mile stone is the end of that project and it also have 0 duration.

Task dependent: When an activity depends upon task assign to it is task dependent activity.
Resource Dependent Activity: When an activity depends upon resource assign to it is resource dependent activity.

For Example: When you assign Excavator as a resource to an Activity and check its resource usage profile red
columns been appears in the right which shows OVERLOCATED EARLY UNITS and time also taken as a working day
like Sunday and Saturday if you have five days calendar. If activity shows that it will complete in 10 days in their
original duration then change its Activity Type to resource dependent activity it will automatically shifts to 12 days as
we have 2 non-working days like Sunday and Saturday.

However this Activity will completes in 12 days as it has original 10 days duration and 2 days added because of Non-
working days. Then Overlocated Early Units will not show.

You can also add WBS Summary in activity but keep in mind don’t linkup that activity with any other activity as it
shows the gross timing that will be taken by the project.

Level Of Effort: Level of effort is a variable activity which depends on other activity linking with it. When you assign
Level Of Effort to an activity in P6 it will not be figure out in the Gantt Chart view but we can make it visible by
clicking on Bars, Add a new one and name it Level of Effort, also find LOE in the filter tab.

For Example: When you change the duration of linking activities which are linked with LOE, then LOE will
automatically add up the gross duration of the linked duration.

5): Estimation of duration for an activity?

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