Primavera p6 102
Primavera p6 102 trial#
Meanwhile I have downloaded Primavera P6 v15.1, which is apparently very nicely made available for download for trial purposes by Oracle. At the end of the day we are practical people. The reason I want to have such schedule is because we shall not be using only academic-created schedules. So, that people cannot say, that we specially crafted such schedule to give an advantage to one or the other tool. It would be very good if such schedule is in *.mpp format and in general publicly available. So, if the solution is optimal - pass, otherwise - fail.Ģ) Example of some real construction (or any other) project, which can be used for resource leveling comparison. At the same time it shall not be that simple, that every tool would come with pass result. What I am still looking for is the following:ġ) may be more of very simple intuitively-understood schedule, which can be assigned a pass/fail criteria, rather then duration. Regarding the schedule GENETIC01, when I download it, then Spider complaints that file is corrupted and I can't open it.
Primavera p6 102 software#
Maybe we can agree that software unable to model activity duration as a function of assigned resources is not good enough.įor the project Easy both MSP2010 and P6 v15.1 come with the same result as Spider (12 days) So we agreed to compare resource leveling capabilities without considering the other resource assignment variables Spider can handle very easily. I was reluctant to go with very simple models but it was agreed to go low because most commercially available software cannot dream about modeling duration as a function of the resources allocated, a function that in many cases is linear but at other times it is not and for this we use skills for whole crews. I do not know of software other than Spider Project that can model activity duration as a function of the assigned resources productivity, it is a no brainer for us but not available everywhere. The team you use at night migh be less productive than the one working during the day.As things change with activity progress the original resource assignments can cahnge, the team you use for the same activity on winter might be different to the team you use on summer and their production rates per unit time can be substantially different. Usually these are standard crews with different labor and equipment composition each with different output per day.For some basic software, skills and materials are just an ID label different to the functionality Spider associate with these names.Teams selection can be done among a pool of several teams that share common skills with or without same production rates.Production can be done by individual teams working on separate shifts and can be done by a combination of several teams.Spider project can tackle the issue very easily with the use of production type activities whose duration is determined by the allocated resources, their production rates and the total volume of work. You said - The problem with most software is the assumption the duration is fixed - it is not, the quantity of work is fixed, the duration is a function of the resources allocated (but the relationship is complex).
Graphical representation of results, relative to Microsoft Project 2010 I also plan this 1 st post in this thread with the comulative results table, so that it is all in one place.īrief digest on the comparison results so far (updated 01:27 CET)Īverage ratio leveled / not leveled MSP 2010 SP2Īverage ratio Leveled / not leveled SpiderĪverage Spider Project duration relative to MSP 2010 SP2Īverage ratio leveled / not leveled Primavera P6 V15.1Īverage Primavera P6 V15.1 relative to MSP 2010 SP2
In such way we can build a sort of database of results, from where anybody can track conclusions independently. The only hard requirement would be: that the test would be repeatable. Now a couple of years later I still did not find any report on comparing of resource levelling of different project management programs, therefore I want to restart my 2 years ago initiative but with much more flexible rules.Īnybody can post here a comparison results of resource levelling outcomes of at least any 2 tools using any comparison method he has chosen for himself. That initiative did not really proceed back then. In addition to this I started an initiative to develop requirements to conduct more scientific resource levelling engine comparison of different tools. Few years ago I posted here an articles on brief comparison of resource levelling engines of different tools: