The predecessor completion date and successor start date are the same. For Example, if predecessor finishes on 04th Feb-18, 04:00 PM the successor start on 04th Feb-18, 04:00 PM instead of 05th Feb-18, 08:00 AM with 0 days lag. Kindly Help me to figu...
4 Bad (Planning) Habits to Kick this Year February 15, 2018 | By Dr. Dan Patterson, Guild Fellow of Planning & Scheduling, PMP After being on the road these last two weeks presenting at project planning conferences and talking to hundreds of project...
I am having trouple converting a file from MPX to MPP. Could someone help me out with a converter or something. Under pressure.
I am having trouple converting a file from MPX to MPP. Could someone help me out with a converter or something. Under pressure.
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Hi there, new user in need of a bit of help. I have set up a few Cost Centres which I would like to allocate to tasks. Asta seems to set these Cost Centres up with a value of £0.62 as standard. This means when I enter 100 into the allocation part ...
Years ago, I begrudgingly took my project management certification (PMP®)exam. I passed. Almost a decade later, I now teach PMP® preparation classes and see the value of the Project Management Book of Knowledge® Guide (PMBOK®)and the rigors of the ...
I have a schedule file for Asta that needs to be imported into P6.The problem that I am having is that the schedule was created using the "Natural Order Hierarchy" instead of WBS.Is there a function that copies the "Natural Order Hierarchy" into a WB...
Dear All, I received these comments regarding program narrative from client."The Narrative shall define the strategy of how the Supplier will execute/implement the project including but not limited to; logic used in programme, calendar to be used, in...
Good EveningI use P6V8. The schedule I inherited has activties using "physical % complete" as most common way to status progress. So are milestones. As "activity percent complete based on activity steps" is checked at the project level, whenever I c...
Hi everybody I have a problem with one of my program (Updated Program), I want to use it as a revised baseline. The issue is project finish date is 24-Jan-2019, but when i check the activity usage spreadsheet, Cost loaded in the Preliminarie...
A few times a month, I facilitate interactive planning sessions between owners and subcontracted engineers and constructors. Normally ill print out a big paper timeline, hadwrite activity descriptions on post it notes and positon them on the timeline...
Forecasting is an important skill and since the beginning, folks have been using different techniques and procedures to better predict the future. As the technology evolved over time, new techniques and procedures have revolutionized the forecasting ...
Often neglected, the subject document is an important piece of paper for construction projects. The document can be used in a variety of ways to improve the project performance and dispute resolutions. I have often seen that the project team believes...
Hi ,I am trying to create an visual report using excel 2015 but the error message below pop up"This operation requires that you have Excel 2003 or later installed on your computer"does anyone encounter the same issue as well? May i know how to solve ...
Dear All,I am working in MS Project 2016 with some plannings, mainly product development project plannings with a lot of engineering tasks which I have all scheduled from a starting date onwards and then resulting in an end date.Now the question I ne...
HelloI have recently transited into planning from architecture and i am working on a multi story residential project. I have been asked to do a "Pod Schedule" for the flats as we are using prefab pod bathrooms. What is a pod schedule? does anyone kno...
Hi all,Can anyone help, I have assigned activitities to Hammock bars based on work package list I have created and assigned a cost to the Hammock bars to produce a cash flow. I am however unsure if I have allocated each activity to a Hammock bar. I ...
For a long time, too long in fact, spreadsheets have been the primary tool that organizations use for budgeting, planning and forecasting. It has become ingrained in the DNA of how organizations function, the foundation of everyday reporting and tran...
Hi! This is my first post.I'm looking for any ID in the resulting exported (XER or XML or whatever) file.An ID that uniquely identifies a task and that is "persistent".I mean: in my tests I exported twice the same project.The first time, the task "Co...