From Project Planning and Scheduling Using Primavera Version 4.1: For Engineering & Construction and Maintenance & Turnaround
Overview
Activities should be well-defined, measurable pieces of work with ameasurable outcome. Activity descriptions containing only nouns such as Bid Document haveconfusing meanings. Does this mean read, write, review, submit or all of these?
Adequate activity descriptions always have a verb-noun structure to them. A more appropriateactivity description would be Read Bid Document or Review and Submit Bid Documents. The limitfor activity names is 120 characters, but try to keep activity descriptions meaningful yet shortand concise so they are easier to print.
When activities are created, they may be organized under hierarchical WBS Codes. This processwill be covered in the next chapter ORGANIZING ACTIVITIES USING WBSCODES.
The creation and sequencing of detailed and summary activities are discussed in the followingchapters:
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Understanding Activity Codes,
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Creating Detailed activities (in this chapter),
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Adding the logic in the ADDING THE DEPENDENCIES chapter.
This chapter will cover the following topics:
| Topic | Menu Command |
|---|---|
| Select the Default tab from the Bottompane in the Project Workspace. |
| Select a line in the schedule and strike the Ins ( Insert Key) or right-click and select the Addmenu item. |
| May be displayed in the bottom pane by selecting View, Show on Bottom, ActivityDetails. |
| Select the activities and copy & paste to the required location. |
| Use the % Complete Type drop down box in the General tab of the Activity Details |
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Overview The Project WBS function is usedto group and summarize activities under a hierarchical structure in the same way as the WBSfunction in P3 and SureTrak, and the Custom Outline Codes in...
Overview Activities should be well-defined, measurable pieces of work with a measurable outcome. Activity descriptions containing only nouns such as "Bid Document" have confusing meanings. Does this...
Overview Activities should be well-defined, measurable pieces of work with a measurable outcome. Activity descriptions containing only nouns such as Bid Document have confusing meanings. Does this...
Overview Activities should be well-defined, measurable pieces of work with a measurable outcome. Activity descriptions containing only nouns such as "Bid Document" have confusing meanings. Does this...
Activities should be well defined and measurable pieces of work with a measurable outcome. Activities such as Specification have confusing meanings. Does this mean Draft, Review, Approve, Issue, or...
