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daily includes the new posts, simply add your Microsoft Project, the first line is assigned ID 1, the second line ID 2 and so on. If you insert a new activity between 1 and 2,
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P6 is characterized by unique ID. For example, you can set the project to start from 1000 and increment by 10, so that the
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If you are working in a big project and using activity ID system/ Identification then Microsoft Project will not be the correct
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Activity Sorting:
Under the group bands in P6, you can tell it how to sort the activities. Sorting by date order, sort by Activity ID or any other
factor which make the sorting very durable and easy.
Microsoft Project offers a bit more discretionary control in that you can just move individual activities into the position you
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Twelve-month profit and loss Multiple User Access
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MS Project doesn’t allow multiple users to work on a single project at the same time, Primvera allows you to do that. In
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Primavera you can even specify what features of Primavera a particular user can use , and which he can not.
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MS Project lacks the feature of tracking project issues or risks. In Primavera, we can record issues and risks.
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Cost Engineers: Who are they and Primavera plan, documents and other information can be converted to HTML directly from the software. MS Project doesn’t
what do they do? have such option.
Cost Engineers: Who are they
and what do they do? So just Steps
what is cost engineering and who
are the people we call cost Steps in Primavera allows you to create sub-activities (steps) of an activity. Each step can have its own start and finish date,
engineers? The... and a completed step can be marked as completed. This useful feature is missing in MS Project.
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Besides Costs, in Primavera project expenses e.g training, travel, etc can also be added, in MS Project we can not.
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Custom Fields
detailed explanation how to use Both MS Project and Primavera allows us to create custom fields. But MS Project even allows us to set complex formulas or
each Microsoft Excel formula.
use fields and add additional values to it, to use in the custom field. In Primavera we can create a blank custom field, but can
1- Date and time functions:
not set formulas to it, so users have to manually enter values in each in the field, for each column.
DATE(year,month,day):Returns the...
Human Resource Management Columns
Definitions
Human Resource Management Definitions: Primavera P6 has many useful columns. It comes installed with over 200 columns, each giving you different information.
[cmamad id="1174" align="left" Some column category to name include EVM, Budgeting, Costs, etc. On the other hand in MS Project, there are only around 40
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approach to project staffing that, in its most
general form, calls for implementers to be... Multiple Activity Relationships
In Primavera P6, more than one type of relationship can be established between activities e.g we can have FF and SS between
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the same two activities. In MS Project only one relationship can be made between two activities.
Activity Duration Actual % Complete Budget At Project Website
Completion Cash Flow Create detailed time The Primavera P6 software can create a comprehensive website comprising of complete project details including activities,
resources, reports, risks, issues, WBS, and everything that has been entered in the software. This website is very valuable
engineering
schedule feature and is not present in MS Project.
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In Primavera multiple projects can be created and viewed. This can be done in MS Project too but since MS Project is not
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multiple project or WBS comparisons, cost and units calculations.
method of statement There are many more minor differences between Primavera P6 and and MS Project but above list is of major and prominent
differences between the two software.
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In Primavera P6 WBS is created separated from activities. Once WBS has been created, then we can add activities with each
Complete planned value planning WBS element. Whereas in MS Project, activities are indented to make them look like WBS.
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a new WBS level by indenting from the line above. This method allows you to create a system in the same screen that you
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