The Pitfalls of Percent Complete Types in Primavera P6

What does it mean when we say a project is 50% complete? Does it speak to work accomplished or duration elapsed? Maybe it's a measure of how much money has been spent to date. Watch this lesson to learn about the pitfalls of using Percent Complete values in progressing. You'll also learn about each of Primavera P6's Percent Complete Types.

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What does it mean when I say a project is 50% complete? Does that mean that 50% of the time of the project is been spent or at the halfway mark? Does it mean that 50% of the work is been done? Does it mean 50% of the construction is done? Or does it mean 50% of the work hours have been spent?

Percent complete types in Primavera give us different options for calculating percent complete of an activity, that why we want to understand this issue to figure out which percent complete types we should be using when we’re retracting and progressing our projects, let's explore this by doing a scenario.

Here's the scenario you're the scheduler on a project, your project manager needs to report today to the client on the project in the progress of the office tower construction, that’s the project we’re doing, he needs the data now he's going to write to a meeting to report, he asks you what percentage of the excavation work is completed? So you check the Primavera P6 schedule and now you have three options for how to report.

Option A1 where 35% done, the total duration the excavation work or option A2, the excavation teams has completed 35% of the total estimated man hours or A3 the excavation team has excavated 35% of the total soil, what options do you think is best? We’re going to explore each one and see what happens.

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