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PMO Training for Planners

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Hello,Some say that working in project planning and controls is super easy, so I'm wondering if anyone is looking for some hands-on PMO training?Thanks

Mar 3, 2024

Project Decision-Making

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Making good decisions is a critical project management skill.  The challenge is to create a fair, efficient, effective, and transparent process for our teams and stakeholders.  In a McKinsey survey, only 20% of respondents stated their companies exce...

Mar 4, 2024

'Book' about Planning in a UK EPC Company

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I have updated my 'book' about planning in a UK EPC Company. It's not about how to plan a project or even how to use the software but the company requirements of how planning supports the business based on a 50 year varied experience. If you want a q...

Mar 5, 2024

Mitigation Plan - Baseline Adjustment

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Hi Everyone,I am working as a delegate of the Employer on the construction project. As a planning engineer, my main responsibility is to lead the main contractor in preparing, updating, and revising their schedule. In addition to using P6, we were re...

Mar 7, 2024

Commissioning

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Hello,Am I the only one who find it challenging with the commissioning phase? Is there anyone that have some "best-practice" or experience with this?

Mar 14, 2024

Primavera Critical import issue

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During Import of XER file the appication is intercepted. Then it is not possible to start P6 at all.Log file: Bad Data Row for table UDFTYPEUDF_TYPE_ID = 828TABLE_NAME = TASKUDF_TYPE_NAME = user_field_828UDF_TYPE_LABEL = OLD_MS_UIDLOGICAL_DATA_TYPE =...

Mar 16, 2024

Schedule Quality Check

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Hello Everyone, For a quality of a schedule what points to be checked, I have listed few but not sure if its right. Open end on 2 activity only, one without Predecesor and another without sucessor.SF logic shouldnt be usedAll activities should be lin...

Mar 22, 2024

Coloring and grouping a WBS in excel from P6 copy and paste

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Sometimes it is useful to copy and paste schedule information from Primavera P6 to excel in wbs format.Howerver, whenever you paste information from P6 into excel the color fomatting and the ability to group by wbs doe snot carry over.There is an exc...

Mar 25, 2024

Delay Penalty for Milestones

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Hi,Is there any form of Contract specifically mentioning the Delay Penalty/LDs for not meeting a milestone. In FIDIC -Red Book, in my understanding it is not clearly linked with a milestone, but for the overall works completion.Appreciate- expert's a...

Mar 26, 2024

Activity Type = WBS Summary

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Hi All, I just need some clarification,...............Do WBS Summary Activities drive other Activities if used as Predecessor? I think not but would appreciate confirmation.Cheers, Rod

Mar 27, 2024

Difference between deadline and finish no later than constraint

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Dear Schedulers, According to my understanding, when a deadline is used in MS Project,then the late finish of the activity will be set to that deadline date. Also, when a finish no later than constraint is used, then again the late finish of the acti...

Mar 28, 2024

Terminal Float Duration

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Has anybody got a rule of thumb regarding how much Terminal Float to allow in a schedule where the Contract Date has been left for the Contractor to propose? 

Apr 3, 2024

Primavera P6 activity Bar

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Dear sirs, I have recently moved from MSP back to Primavera P6.I am trying to prevent the activity bar from reducing in size when using duration % i.e if the bar covers a 1 month duration with  known start and finish date and i apply  20% progress, t...

Apr 6, 2024

Assessing Delays in Agile & Distributed Projects

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Published in the April edition of PM World Journal,  our latest paper, Assessing Delays in Agile & Distributed Projectslooks at the challenge of assessing delay and disruption in projects where a CPM schedule is not being used:  https://pmworldjourna...

Apr 8, 2024

10D BIM

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Hi,just read an article of 10D BIM - are these stages internationally recognised?

Apr 13, 2024

Rubbish Piping Standards

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Hi,direct quote from a Client's Piping Specification"The inside diameter of the pipe should be less than the outside diameter to prevent the hole being on the outside",Don't get me started on their definition and identification of a "long pipe"

Apr 13, 2024

Finish date is being calculated from data Date

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Dear all,I am unsure if this is a "glich" but I have noticed that if my DD is say 16 October 23, and I have an 20 d activity that should start on 11/3/ 24 and  finish 10/4/24  ( I dont want to change the DD as activities are still fluid and being add...

Apr 15, 2024