How to Remove High Floats In Primavera P6 || Reduce Floats || [Best Practices of Scheduling 2020]

How to Remove High Floats In Primavera P6 || Reduce Floats || [Best Practices of Scheduling 2020]
In this tutorial, let us learn How to Remove High Floats In Primavera P6
What is Total Float?
Total Float (TF) of an activity is the time it can be late in finishing without impacting the end date of the project.
You know, there is a check of high float in the project schedule to decide the quality of scheduling. Ideally your schedule should have less than 5% of activities with high float.
This can be achieved by following some of the best practices that I will be discussing now.
1. Firstly, have proper logic in the schedule and leave no open ended activities, that means you need to connect all activities with one or more corresponding activities.
In this sample project, let me run the filter to check No Successor and No Predecessor and you will see that there are no activities shown. That means it is good.
2. Reduce high lags, if required to add high lags, add more activities to describe in detail
3. Eliminate negative float, which arrive because of the constraints that you put in the schedule.
4. Fast track your schedule, so that most of your activities will run in parallel and there by you can reduce the high floats but make sure that you are not creating conflict between activities.
Even though after following all these best practices, you may find activities with high floats and you are required to reduce the high floats, then you can follow this process.
In this same example, you can see some of the activities with high float of 40-50+ days
and I got demand from client saying that we need to reduce the high floats.
Then the quick solution, which needs to be carefully executed is to add more logic which would make some sense rather than creating conflicts.
Here, I have got some more logic discussed with team and upon agreement, I am adding more relationships like this.
This activity which has got 43 days of float, I am linking the new successor and giving FF relationship and click on schedule button to schedule the project, you will notice that the high float has been reduced to 28
You can repeat this process for all those activities with high float to reduce.
But remember friends, don’t create wrong logic and make bad quality schedule.
So friends, this is all about How to Remove High Floats In Primavera P6.
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Very nice helpful

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Nice video
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Thanks , it was really helpful.

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Great video

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[@rishoprose4640]

Good

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So nice

[@boncedriccapistrano2946]

Hi, thank you for very informative tutorial. I would like to ask on how to create a filter with "no predecessor" and "no successor". Thank you in advance.

[@dptutorials]

Great suggestion!, will surely post a video very soon for you.

[@dptutorials]

Hi,
Posted a video here for you.
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[@TheShrestha64]

This is totally not possible to make acttivities FF relation because successor is not able to start only when predecessor is completed.

[@dptutorials]

Yes, this is not possible in all the cases.

[@benoevabeta8878]

Hi, thanks for posting this video, however i was lost at the point when you used the FF, why did the high float reduce when you changed the logic to FF, can you please explain because i have to reduce the high float on my project,thanks.

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Thanks a lot for the feedback. You need to understand the concept of total float calculation, it is the late finish - early finish
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Please put video based on generating s curve and manpower histogram it will be very helpful

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However, will try to post a detailed video on this for sure.

[@carlodigma5128]

I tried to link activities then schedule but total float not change. What is the problem? Thanks

[@dptutorials]

You need to link with the nearest date activity and it should drive it. Then it will work definitely.

[@user-qh2yk1xj4h]

I am not able to understand the first part 1. Have proper logic then you showed no pre or successor activities

[@msprojectplanning]

hello sir good Morning
Sir the question is that according PMI specifications long lag is not allowed!
So can we provide higher lag in non critical activities just to reduce the total float??
Please anyone!
Thanks in anticipation 😊

[@dptutorials]

No, you should avoid that and add more relevant activities

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Waiting for next update

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Excellent

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