Hi Although i have been using P6 form ages, has the importance of MSP gone down.. How is MSP fairing with P6 recently ? Daniel

Hi Daniel I would Prefer P6 to MSP due to its handling capabilities - No. of activities in excess of 10,000 activities are handled much well by P6, further you have extended features like progress update feature that allows you to generate pure physical progress curve utilizing time weightage pointers immediately on making your CPM prior to getting into resource and cost loading. Especially useful in complex EPC jobs for detailed Engineering and procurement works, engineering works you could have manhour loading depict the progress measurement standards (again here the basis of calculation done by the system of getting the earned manhour calcuatation based on progress percentage is the same (say for activity 30% complete - 1000 Budgeted Mhrs converted by System in to 300 Mhrs, if you are depicting the Overall Engineering progress on % Basis you would cummulative the overall earned manhours and divide that by Budgeted Mhrs to depcit % Compete, instead the time weightage pointers gives this to you directly), on procurement works - when you have major long lead items that have sufficient production and shipment lead times, this measure utilizing time weightage pointers provides a common parameter for the overall project. Ease of Working with Layouts in P6: Further to distribute sections of program works to individual depts/ trade personnel and record and display progress achieved on Say Dry Wall Partition Architectural works on 25th Floor of Building B on a Project is much better organized using Primavera than MSP. Global Changes Feature that allows you to make required parametric changes on the whole/section of works with minimal effort is definitely a big plus. Earned Value Calculations - The options provided in Calculation of Estimate to Complete based on either linear or pro-rata distribution is a big plus. For Monitoring Multitude of Projects at corporate level would definitely prefer P6 especially to track, monitor and analyze the company's resource utilization and Earned Value projections across projects.