Monday, September 14, 2015

Have anyone used P6 Visualizer to create TSLD & Gantt Chart?

I would suggest using a sample project and only using one project to build out the "samples" or templates of the TSLD or Gantt Chart. The tedious, but fun part, is customizing the look and feel of the chart or diagram to really get it to where you want. If you don't have a powerful machine, it may hang, but it does not hang on a machine with 8GB of RAM. So keep that in mind. In a quick google search, I found a partner's pdf on using the Visualizer. Hopefully it helps you get started...

http://www.drmcnatty.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/June-2013-Tech-Webinar-Primavera-Visualizer.pdf

How do I use roles in Primavera 6?

You can use roles in a few ways. You can use them as placeholders for activity assignments you know you need, but don't know the actual resource (named or otherwise). Some organizations use the role as the resource name and go that route. Seems like you're using 6, so roles usually can just be added to your activities as you are building your schedule and you can do your planning/budgeting that way if the roles have costs assigned to them. This way, you can get a cost estimate even if you do not know the named resources.

As for EV, this is a topic we could talk about all day here. What exactly is the end goal of what you are measuring? I imagine cost and schedule, but do you know what EV attributes you are looking to measure? All of them. There are plenty of books that are out there. A partner has a pdf out there and there are tons of videos and material out there on this topic.

http://www.drmcnatty.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/October-2012-Webinar-Calculating-Earned-Value-and-Estimate-to-Complete-in-P6.pdfless