Mode: Mobilisation, Working, Standby, Breakdown, Weather.Priority: Very High, High, Medium, Low, Very Low.Team Lead: Frank Lampard, Didier Drogba, Petr Cech, Celestine Babayaro, John Terry.Manager: Dennis Wise, Ruud Gullit, Eddie Newton, Franco Zola, Steve Clark.Stage Gate: 20-Week Gate, 12-Week Gate, 6-Week Gate, 2-Week Gate.While in P3 you could create an activity code on the fly, in P6 all codes have to be defined in the activity code dictionary before they can be assigned to an activity, so let’s define the following Project activity codes and values:

This tutorial will focus on Project type activity codes and this is because Project activity codes are included in an exported xer file. Project activity codes categorize activities based on specific features within a project”. EPS activity codes organize activities within a specific branch or node of the enterprise project structure (EPS). Global activity codes organize activities across all projects in an organization. In the Gantt chart shown in figure 01, you will notice that the activities are grouped by our WBS structure shown in figure 02, so in this tutorial, we are going to group the same activities shown in the Gantt chart using different categorisations.Īccording to P6 Help, “An activity code can be one of three types: Global, EPS, or Project. This tutorial is aimed at P6 Beginner or Intermediate level users and all screenshots are from P6 R16.2. In this tutorial, we will explore different ways we can use activity codes to present schedule data. Activity codes (all 3 types Global, EPS & Project) give Planners and Schedulers the flexibility to categorise activities in many ways therefore enabling the grouping, filtering & reporting of activities using custom set of data outside of WBS, Resources and Dates. One drawback of grouping activities only by WBS is that it is a rigid structure with little or no room for manoeuvring and this is where Primavera P6 activity codes come in handy. Planning tools such as Primavera P6 have a feature that enables Schedulers and Planners to replicate the Project WBS and this is why activities in a schedule are predominantly grouped by Work Breakdown Structure. On most projects, the structure of Schedule and Cost performance reporting is based on the Project WBS and the reason for this is not farfetched since WBS is a deliverables-driven hierarchical structure.

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