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Best way to plan travel costs in MS Project

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 Dear all,I would like everybody to comment on my approach for planning travel costs of the project. May be you can suggest something better.If say I have a project, which would last for a year (a critical path). I know that this project would occupy...

Jun 8, 2012

Please comment on my approach for overtime planning in MS Project

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 Dear all,I would like you to comment on my approach for overtime planning.Say I plan a project, and I know that to do certain activity I would need 2 engineers for 2 weeks.The type of business we are in, is that we work in weeks blocks, and I know i...

Jun 9, 2012

Man Hour Calculation - (Manhour Norms)

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HiDoes anyone has manhour calculation guidence in civil, mechanical, electrical & instrumentation, if so, please drop here Thanks in advance. 

Jun 12, 2012

additional work

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Hi ALL,Need your advise, as per the contract quantity there are some work scope not in the contract quantity and the client want to do without any variation order. please advise.RegardRon

Jun 12, 2012

WIndow Analysis ( Time Impact Analysis)

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I have gone thru the text of window analysis therotically , but still unbale to implement the same . If anybody who have tried window analysis and had the soft copy i request them to mail me at use private message service

Jun 12, 2012

bar chart view is none in p3

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<p>Dear all,</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>i am using p3. i can't see my barchart but it is visible in print preview also i can take print with barchart. so pls any one can explain why the barchart is not displaying in normal view???????????????????</p><p>&nbsp...

May 13, 2012

Help me please in P6.8.1

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Dear all; i need your helpIam new Primavera user and need to make primavera 6.8.1 working in network environment ( i have a server run windows server 2008 R2 and Microsoft sql server 2005 sp3), we are 6 users need to install Primavera P6.8.1 as Clien...

May 13, 2012

CREATE A MASTER SCHEUDLE

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Hi,our company having 4 ongoing projects in diffrent locations. in p6, i organised my all projects under one EPS node. now our company wants to track the total availability of resources for all running projects. how i can generate reports by extracti...

May 14, 2012

B.o.Q Vs Specification

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I am referring to the Mike  part of reply  to my previous post  "..........This is based on the principle that if there is no BOQ item to price then the obligation is not included in the contract price....." . I have case where certain items are not ...

May 14, 2012

project finish date

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Hi friends, I have finish constraint for my project eg: must finish on or before 12-dec-2012 and I scheduled my project but the project showing the finish date as 16-feb 2013 why it is happening like this... your expert advice highly appreciated.. Re...

May 14, 2012

effect of mile stone on scheduling

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Hi Friends, If we put some milestones for some activity start in WBS levels...will it affect any problem while scheduling..will it make any effect in activity floats..? your views are most welcome. Regards Sunil.

May 14, 2012

Duration increased in tracking schedule

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Dear All, I have a activity whose original duration is 125 days, while in baseline it is calculating it properly. but in tracking schedule, the finish date is increasing beyond the allocated 125 days to 238 days. i checked everything calenders, durat...

May 15, 2012

Project Manager vs Scheduler - who to do what?

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Who should take the initiative of ensuring there is a proper schedule in a project, is it a scheduler or a project manager?Who should provide information that needs to be fed in a schedule, is it the PM or the scheduler through reading all project do...

May 15, 2012

P6 v8.1 - urgent

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Dear all,i am new at using P6 V8.1. I am getting this massage every time i wanna open a new menu. The massage is: This website wants to install the following add-on: 'Java (TM) SE Runtime Environment 6.0 update 24' from 'Sun Micro systems, Inc.' but ...

May 15, 2012

3 Ways to Realize Project Benefits

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Hi Guys, Here are three tips to help build a strong benefits culture for your Program Management Office (PMO) http://bit.ly/KpT9dj Emily

May 15, 2012

Using Resource Curves ?

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Firstly can I just say that I am a not greatly experienced P6 user and this might be something fairly simple I am doing wrong. Here goes - Can anyone suggest how I best achieve my desired report or view? To explain - I have a number of future project...

May 15, 2012

Tower Crane Hook Time Analysis

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Hi people, Is there any straight forward formula to calculate the tower crane hook times, including the down time of the crane. So far I have for 50 hours / week production duration is equal to 35 hours / week crane production. Is my assumption corre...

May 15, 2012

Global Change to show Days as Month Duration>

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Hello Recently moved to high level planning in Months & Quarter duration. Scary as I have come from Hourly Planning!! I remember from P3 traning years ago that you can create a Global Change, probably with a Text Field Column to show Days into Months...

May 16, 2012

P6 start & finishes fixed

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I am creating a revised target program. I have a number of activities which start dates are pushing out past the data date or will not fix to the date I assign. These activities have no constraints and no relationships! Something is driving them but ...

May 16, 2012