Planning, Scheduling & Programming Discussion

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Which smart features of P3 do you miss?

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Erdem Uysal 👤 Member for 17 years 11 months

I have been using P6 since 2008 but I still miss some smart features of P3.  My favorite two is below. What is yours?

- Floating successor, predessor and recources windows.

- Smart keyboard shortcut keys which lets you navigate, input and check the data through the programme quickly.

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Using Earned Value in case of forgotten activities moved to the end of the project

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Evgeny Z. 👤 Member for 18 years 5 months

Dear all,

I would like to get some guidelines from more experienced colleagues in the situation of using Earned Value in the following scenario:

Before the start of the project I have created project schedule and based on this schedule the project cost   got calculated. Based on this cost the price has been created to the customer and a fixed price contract has been signed

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Updating Programme

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Tim Tam 👤 Member for 13 years 2 months

Hi,

I have encountered people (planners & non planners) with 2 schools of thoughts when it comes to updating programme.

 

1) First Type (Static type) 

" The baseline programme logic and relationship is fixed, you can't change when updating."

" Update the programme to show the contractual position of the project"

People call it the so-call " baseline update"

 

2)Second type (Dynamic type)

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Filters

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Chris Watt 👤 Member for 12 years 7 months

I am trying ti establish a filter for hiding the activities in a schedule that are 100%.

That is easy.

My schedule is broken down by 4 areas.

As part of that filter, I still need to show all activities (including the ones that are 100% complete) in 1 of those areas.

(so basically I want to show all activities that are not complete, but I also want to show all activities (complete or not) in one of the 4 areas.

 

All activities are task dependent.

Thanks,

Chris

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Best choice for making Commissioning schedule_ Primavera P6 or MS Project-2010

Dear All,

I am preparing commissioning schedule for 4000 MW combined cycle schedule. It has a configuration of 2GTX2HRSGX1ST total 6 groups. I am in the dialema that which software will be helpful to me in the log run if i want to monitor it on weekly basis. I am currently working on two softwares Primavera P6 and MS Project-2010.

If anybody can help me with that.

Thanks & Regards,

Girish Bhave 

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Duration difference after exporting P6 to MPP

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Vic Noztua 👤 Member for 12 years 9 months

Hi!

Please need help.

After exporting a P6 project to MPP, several activities durations are showing incorrect durations - however you tried to correct the start and finish dates the duration stays incorrect?

 

Thank you in advance!

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Machine Learning / Hardware Scheduling Projects

Hi! I am kind of newbie in scheduling. I learning all I can about the longest path. It seems like with today's increasing effecienecy of computers and Internet bandwith it would be possible to develop more precise, accurate and effecient alogrithms than critical path methodoloy. In particular using machine learning and dedicated hardware to compute a schedule faster, with more dimensions of information and probabilities. For example consider the machine learning of Netflix or the computational power of the Bitcoin community (ex.

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Dam Construction Schedule (Hydroelectric Power Plant)

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Eric Amagon 👤 Member for 12 years 7 months

Dear All,

I urgently need your help if you can share with me a sample Schedule for Hydro-Electric power plant.



Kindly email it to [email protected].



Thank you all and more power!

Thankyou and Regards,

Eric Amagon

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Negative Float Explanation

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Rami Refaat 👤 Member for 14 years 10 months

Dear All

 

when i am updating my program i noticed that in some WBS nodes, all the activities for example have -13 days float, but the last activity in this WBS has a -11 days float, whats the explanation for that ??

 

this issue has been repeated in other WBSs, and also i noticed that some activities have total float -32 days but the project completion milestone has only -20, any explanation for that too ?? 

regards,

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