Progress Level of Effort and WBS Summary Activities in Primavera P6

We can't forget Level of Effort and WBS Summary Activities now, can we? So watch and learn about how to progress these special activity types in Primavera P6.

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We've shown you how to progress lots of different types of activities, how to progress milestones, task dependent activities, even those are resource and cost loaded, I’d now like to take you through how to progress WBS summary and level of effort activities I Primavera and you’re going to see that progressing WBS summary and level of effort activities is very easy and straightforward, let’s flip over to Primavera and I'll show you just how easy it is..

Let's focus on the system engineering area in this automation line refit project, in this area we have a WBS summary activity and we also have a level of activity a few down, because WBS summary activities and level of effort activities summarize other activities, there's very little work to do in statusing, those activities pick up the status of the other activities that they are “summarizing”.

Let’s see an example with least WBS summary activity, what I'll do is I'll go ahead and status the start milestone and the activity below it as though everything went according to plan, now notice I did not status the WBS summary activity but watch what happens when I move my data date forward to the 15th, the WBS summary activity has picked up status automatically, it is summarizing the status of the activities below it.

Have a look it has been marked started automatically, I did not mark it star...

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