Thursday, May 11, 2017

Primavera P6 Duration Type and Progressing a Schedule

Duration Type controls the way Primavera P6 manages the variables of activity duration, effort, and/or budget when adding multiple resources to an activity. It also affects these same variables when progressing the schedule with updates.

When a schedule is in the planning phase it is typically a good idea to set the duration type to fixed duration and units/time for most situation This is done so that Primavera P6 honors your activity duration estimates and increases the unknown work (units) and, therefore, the budget, based on additional required resource effort (units/time).

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