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Primavera Templates

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Can someone guide me through the process of creating project templates in P6 8.3.2. I know the older version used to have methodology management but its gone in this version. I am only familiar with methodology management but I have never used it. My...

Sep 17, 2014

Earned value

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Dears,How can use earned value to compare the project progress reporting

Sep 18, 2014

Earned value method

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Dears,How can use earned value to compare the project progress reporting

Sep 18, 2014

Watching the Watchmen

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Good morningwe are developing preperation plans (planning to plan) for our shut downs and turnarounds. part of this process is developing objective KPIs for each deliverable (at least for the big ones that need more than 2 reporting cycles to produce...

Sep 18, 2014

Resource and Cost Loading

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Hi All,I am new in Primavera P6 however i am now experience in Preparing/updating schedules in P6 w/o resource and cost loading. Now i am in next step to learn these as well.Can anybody help to share the stuff/material for easy learning for resource ...

Apr 30, 2015

"Whaddya Do When the Critical Path Changes?"

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I just posted a new article “Whaddya Do When the Critical Path Changes?” on my blog. The article shows how a delay during project execution that changes the critical path requires new analysis of the value, drag, and true cost of the new critical pat...

May 2, 2015

Project Controls Best Practices- Online survey

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Dear Friends and Colleagues I would highly appreciate if you could complete this online survey that I am conducting for my Master's degree. The topic is about the best Project controls practices and its influences on projects. The survey will take le...

May 2, 2015

Disable de Sirens -- But Put Out de Critical Path Fires, Too!

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I just posted a new article “Disable de Sirens – But Put Out de Critical Path Fires, Too!” on my blog. This article is in explanation to some readers who felt that some of my comments in my previous article (“Whaddya Do When the Critical Path Changes...

May 4, 2015

Calender exporting

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Hi,good morning , i have one doubt regarding the Calender exporting in Primamera P6, is it possible to export Calender from Program ??

May 6, 2015

SQL - How Can I Select Only Critical Tasks

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HelloI am developing an application which pulls data from a P6 SQL database. I want to select all Critical Tasks. Can someone advise me which SQL database Tables/Fields signify a Task as being Critical please.I thought there was a 'critical_flag' fie...

May 6, 2015

Ahead of Schedule Activities

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Hi guys,My project is in the middle and i have some activities completed, mostly activities status is in progress. Some body help me on:1) I want number of in progress activities that are ahead of the schedule.2) Number of in progress activities that...

May 7, 2015

Your first project

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I’m collecting vignettes, anecdotes, stories about lessons learned on your first project. What advice were you given? What advice would you give to a PM starting his first project? What mistakes did you make? Anything from your first project that you...

May 8, 2015

Activity pausing

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Hey all, I am concerned about pausing an activity and how? Currently my problem is ,I had scheduled an activity B to start after A , but due to certain site conditions A won't start and B will start as planned. But since A is having FS relationship w...

May 9, 2015