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Let the Customer be Aware!

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Triggered by Gary Heerkens’s article “Imposed Deadline Syndrome” which I blogged about yesterday, today I expanded the discussion: What are the responsibilities of a project sponsor/customer and how should we ensure that they understand it? You can b...

Mar 2, 2015

Import Resource Usage Assignment Spread back into P6

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Hi,I have a list of resources and their budgeted hours on a monthly basis in excel and would like to import this list into P6.In P6 i have the list of resources which already have actual hours accrued as well as remaining hours. The requirements are ...

Mar 3, 2015

How to clear the "Unsatisfied Relationship" in schedule log?

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Hi all: I am a planner from Taiwan, and in a Sabic project by now.The client requested me to clear all the Unsatisfied Relationship in schedule log.I tried many times by still can't find a logical way to clear it all.THANKS FOR YOUR KINDLY HELP~ 1. W...

Mar 4, 2015

Un-Logic negative total float

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Dear Engineers ,I am working on a recovery plan , so I finished my portion of yesterday(made relations, activities,durations.....) with zero total float , the point is here when I opened the schedule today , a huge -ve total float was appeared...part...

Mar 4, 2015

Updating Activities in Primavera P6

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A common request that we receive is from folks wanting to understand how to update work progress using the update features in Primavera P6 Professional. This article describes the major steps to updating your schedule based upon the progress of your ...

Mar 4, 2015

Reviewing progressed activities

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Hi all,Can you suggest an easy way to review the progressed activities from contractor's updated program? I mean how can I simply filter all activities that was progressed within the week (reporting period) without having to scroll through thousands ...

Mar 4, 2015

Educating the Boss

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If the lack of comprehension and reasonableness on the part of senior management and sponsors/customers is damaging project management, what are we in the project management community going to do about it? Because, make no mistake, it is OUR PROFESSI...

Mar 4, 2015

Visual Reports

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HelloIm looking at reporting in MS Project 2013 standard. Ive not been using project very long but im slowly learning.One of the visual reports, Resource Remaining Work, is pretty much what i am looking for but i dont see anything in the picker to le...

Mar 4, 2015

Filter colapses WBS

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Any clue why applying a filter collapses my WBS?I've restarted Primavera, perhaps there's a setting I'm missing somewhere.  Even removing all filters collapses to Lv3 on a programme with Lv4 WBSUsing v8.2, I'm guessing a bug, but I've not noticed it ...

Mar 5, 2015

Calender ( HELP !!! )

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I actually need your help, How can i change my project Calendar ( Of Each activities ) from 10 hours to 8 hours without affecting the activities duration( Start & Finish date for each activities & the entire project ).i.e All activities will remain w...

Mar 6, 2015

Trimble?

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Mar 6, 2015

Weekend Puzzler: Earned Value and the DIPP

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Many people have expressed pleasure at the “Weekend Puzzlers” I have posted on my blog. So I posted one again today.It’s a multiple choice quiz on (relatively) simple earned value and DIPP calculations. And the answers, along with the calculations, a...

Mar 6, 2015

Mid-Term EOT claim

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Hi, everybody. We received several design changes from the begining of the project, and we submitted solo EOT for each one after we received it, used impacted as planned method compared to baseline program (not compared to last EOT, neither compared ...

Mar 8, 2015

Resource question

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Hello my friends  I have question about resoruce assign . After I putted all resource and assigned it on activities , Can I Know where is the activitiy i added the resource on it ? if i have resource (XXXX ) as example and i butted it on activitiy bu...

Mar 9, 2015

Top Down Forecast Entry (Manual)

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Afternoon All,Hoping you can help me out please.I am trying to work out how to manually enter forecast & budget values per month. I am happy with bottom up forecasting but more often than not the clients cost engineer creates a monthly rolling foreca...

Mar 9, 2015

survey about factors that affect planning

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My name is Eman, a graduate student at the Faculty of Engineering. I am seeking MSc degree in civil engineering with emphasis on Construction Engineering. The title of the MSc thesis is "Quality Index for Construction Project Planning". The following...

Mar 9, 2015

LOE Activity

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Dear Planners,Can any one give me a real example for using LOE activity? I know how to use it but I do not know in which cases are used?In updating schedule, shall I enter the progress to LOE activity or just progress of its predecessors and succesor...

Mar 9, 2015