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Henry Gantt - Debunking the myths

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 It may come as a big surprise to many, but Henry L. Gantt did not invent bar charts despite many people miss-labelling them ‘Gantt Charts’ and he had nothing to do with developing project management either!This definitive paper highlights the origin...

Dec 14, 2012

Planning Planet News & Events - Dates?

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Hi, It would be great if Planning Planet News and Events displayed the date posted, so you don't have to open up each item individually to find out. Could be similar foromat to forums? Regards, Ramon

Dec 15, 2012

3D Gantt

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Evaluate directly the project interfaces on the 3D Gantt diagram.[[wysiwyg_imageupload:1456:]]http://3d-wbs.blogspot.fr/BR, Jean-Yves MOINE

Dec 16, 2012

Fixed Rate in Bill OF Quantities

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Dear All,Can anyone explain the meaning of Fixed Rate in a Bill of Quantities to me and its practical implications? Martins

Dec 16, 2012

Budgeted Cost & Qty r showing Zero,,,pls. help to resolve

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Dear All, Hi, I have prepared a plan in primavera 3.1, but facing a problem that Budgeted Cost and Qty are showing zero :(( , i have enter the units & prices in the resource directory, Units & Price Tape. Then assign that resources to the activities,...

Dec 16, 2012

Data Date Explained...

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Hi Everyone, I was wondering if anyone has a simple explanation of the Data date, what it is, what it's used for and how you would use a data date when you were updating a schedule weekly and updating a schedule monthly? I'm aware of the data date I'...

Dec 17, 2012

Export ressources distribution from Ms project to Excel

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Hi All !I want to export the ressources distribution , from MS Projet into excel  in aim to plot the S curve .Can any one tell me the  differents steps to configure the Projectexport-Assistant for this ?ThanksKAmel

Dec 18, 2012

Managing resources (people) absence in Spider

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Dear all,I am looking at resources in Spider and have a question how to simulate resources absence.As I can see, every resource needs to have a calendar, which, in turn, depends on a Week object and exceptions.I am now considering the situation of na...

Dec 18, 2012

P6 Resource assigments as gantt chart?

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Hi all, I remember being able to view the resource assigments in P5 in form of bars on a gantt chart pretty easily. Now, I cannot seem to find any way to do this in P6. The oracle help files refer to Resource, then clicking 'Resource assigment tab' o...

Dec 18, 2012

3D Time-Location diagram

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The 3D Gantt, resulting of the 3D WBS, allows first of all to identify graphically the importance of the project interfaces by evaluating the distance between the tasks, but it allows also to display a 3D time-location diagram, as shown below, in the...

Dec 19, 2012

How to update the new revised baseline to Actual?

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Everyone,I have just revised my baseline.  so the next step from my supervisor is to update the copy of the new baseline up to the data date(new Actual). since i already have an (old) Actual schedule updated on a weekly basis. so what i presume is up...

Dec 19, 2012

PM5 SP5

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morning Anyone know of a way to complete the physical percent complete from 0 to 100 on a finish (or start) milestone? I have feeling you cant, but perhaps I'm wrong. The percent complete type is physical. Thanks Glen

Dec 19, 2012

duration % comp doesnt update

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(first sorry for my  english) i m entering a new value in the duration % comp field then i schedule but p6 doesnt update my new value.p6 hold my old value how can i solve this problem thnx 

Dec 19, 2012

P6 Summary Bar Display

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Hi, I've got a problem that hopefully someone can help me with.  I have created a programme that has several activity codes allocated to each of the tasks, to enable me to group them in different ways (rather than just using a WBS).  Most of the time...

Dec 19, 2012

Can a baseline programme have actual progress data ?

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Deal all:       I'd like to know if a baseline programme can have actual progress data ? because sometimes with  a complicated  ongoing project,we need to update the baseline programme,i.e adding some milestones/activities ,adjusting or revising some...

Dec 20, 2012

lessons from the Titanic disaster

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 One hundred years ago ,Titanic sank after striking an iceberg. More than fifteen hundred people died in that disaster. Here are seven lessons that relate to the sinking itself and three that involve the recovery of the victims.1: You need to know wh...

Dec 20, 2012

Changing the Format of Summary Bars in P6

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Hi, I've got a problem that hopefully someone can help me with.  I have created a programme that has several activity codes allocated to each of the tasks, to enable me to group them in different ways (rather than just using a WBS).  Most of the time...

Dec 20, 2012