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Effective Project Planning with Mind Map - Case Study

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Mind Map is a graphical and pictorial illustration of the interrelated ideas for a common goal or objective. It truly makes its mark for empowering imagination to produce new theme of ideas. Mind Mapping drives people, with a multi-dimensional approa...

Aug 9, 2016

Risk of having multiple users for a single project

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Hey All,I am so intrested to know your experience in having multiple planners for a single project. I am thinking about all of the risks which are associated with having about 8-10 planners from different locations for a single schedule in a share da...

Aug 10, 2016

Why Projects Fail

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Why Projects Fail-a primer on mass mismanagemnetStatistics cite chronic and epidemic delay and overspend in the building industry is only getting worse over time. Naturally, the bigger the headache, the bigger the pill, and the Olympic Games are a ho...

Aug 11, 2016

Claim Digger giving wrong Lag values

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We use claim digger report for delay analysis. However, recently when noticed, the lag values shown in Claim digger is not showing correct value. For example in the programme for comparision if it shows a lag value of FS 3, claim digger shows a value...

Aug 12, 2016

Microsoft Project and Displaying Task Table Ordinal Day Columns

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Microsoft Project’s timescale feature has the functionality to display ordinal dates on the Gantt chart. Although a little involved, it’s possible to display ordinal day columns in the task table. Here we show you how it's done http://ow.ly/ePjQ303b1...

Aug 12, 2016

Bexy Jayne

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My Grandaughter has just launched her professional singing career.Check her website:http://www.bexyjayne.co.ukWe are naturally very proud of her.

Aug 12, 2016

Assigning and tracking two resources with diffrent type in a task

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It may be very newbie question. I am using MS Project. I want to know how to track a task with two different resources. How can we calculate man hour or progresses of this task when there are two resources. For example, my task is from civil engineer...

Aug 13, 2016

Changing default relationship type

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Does P6 allow us to change the default activity type from FS to SS, FF, FS when linking multiple activities?Thanks

Aug 14, 2016

Standard Deviation for Project Managers

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Standard deviation is an abstract concept derived from observation rather than calculation or experimentation.  The standard deviation (SD, also represented by the Greek letter sigma or σ) is a measure that is used to quantify the amount of variation...

Aug 15, 2016

Original Duration vs At Completion Units

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Hi all, I wonder if you can help.  The schedule i'm building below has some original durations that differ from the longest 'At Completion Units' and some that match - I am under the impression that the planned (original) duration of a task should be...

Aug 16, 2016

Original Duration vs At Completion Units

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Hi all, I wonder if you can help.  The schedule i'm building below has some original durations that differ from the longest 'At Completion Units' and some that match - I am under the impression that the planned (original) duration of a task should be...

Aug 16, 2016

P6 Schedule with Budgeted Labor Unit

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Dear Members;I need some tips regarding budgeted labor unit in P6 schedule;Case:I have a construction project with only one resource loaded (labour) and its assigned to all the activities with the budgeted labour units as per quantity of each activit...

Aug 16, 2016

Resource and cost Allocation

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Can you please tell me how to assign cost and resources in very fast way in Primavera P6?Someone told me assigning in excel and importing into primavera P6 is the easiest method in order to do resource or cost allocation.I don't know how to perform t...

Aug 16, 2016

P6, Role Profiles: What is an Unstaffed Remaining Units

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Learing to use Roles (1st time user for Roles, expereinced w/ Resource Ids) and creating associated profiles in the panel below (in P6). I was in process of creating the Staffing Profiles and came across Unstaffed Remaing Units.On the created profile...

Aug 16, 2016

Activity Duration

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Hi,I have assigned manhours in the work column but the activity durations keep changing when I change the manhr value, how can I avoid changing activity duration?

Aug 17, 2016

Calendars ^ _ ^

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Hi !!I want to make a calendar in MSP 2013 for which I copied the 24 hrs shift.Now using exceptions I entered the 4 national holidays which went fine.I marked all the sundays as Off. Now we have a shift change / off day every 15 days or on  the alter...

Aug 17, 2016

10 Signs That Your PMO Is Struggling

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What are the warning signs that you should look out for? Here are 10 signs that your PMO is struggling http://ow.ly/okFv303jEw5

Aug 17, 2016