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The Importance of Management Roles in Business Transformation

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Hi guys, Just wanted to share this blog that many organizations struggle to increase success rates with change programs as they attempt to transform overall business success while improving performance and consider how management is important in tran...

Mar 13, 2018

What Are Some Good Risk Management Techniques?

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To properly mitigate risk, a project manager must know how to effectively manage it. The inability to ascertain hazards can cause a project to careen off the rails rather quickly. Risk management is a process that begins at the conception of the vent...

Mar 16, 2018

E & I schedule

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Dear Members,  Kindly can anyone help me out in making a schedule for E & I project schedule which includes installation, commissioning and startup of control system in oil and gas field. Im new to this work and would like to have some help you guys....

Mar 19, 2018

Start dates in Gantt chart with baseline not on correct position

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Dear all,I have been searching for the answer to this question for couple days and did not find anything (it is driving me crazy!).When I insert both actual work/remaining work bars and baseline bars in Gantt chart, Start dates from actual work/remai...

Mar 21, 2018

Display link slope or the difference of two dates

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Hi, I'm fairly new to planning softwares but I get the basics of powerproject. My problem is that I can't display a column which shows link slope. Is it even posisible? There is a link loop but I ignored the link between these two tasks and now it do...

Mar 22, 2018

Duration % Complete not Rolling Up

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Hi Everyone, Can anyone suggest a reason why duration % complete isn't rolling up to summary level?My % complete type is the same for all activities, but I'm unsure what else to checkThanksEmma

Mar 22, 2018

DCMA 14 Point Schedule Metrics

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Hi,Wondering if anyone knows if  you can pull the DCMA 14 point assesmment info from a programme in Asta easily or at least elements of it.Any help would be appreciated.ThanksChris

Mar 23, 2018

Activity Weighting Parameter

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Hello Everybody, I hope you will be able to advice me regarding the following matter. I am working at the moment on a tender programme and I came across a special requirement from the client for the quality of the schedule which I have never met befo...

Mar 23, 2018

Best Practices for Resource Management

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The best sports managers in history have all been those who had an intuitive grasp of the resources they had available to them. They had a deep understanding of what each team member could do and who could make a difference at crucial moments. This r...

Mar 23, 2018

Building a Schedule No historical information

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Hello How would you go about building a reliable schedule when the project that you are planning is completely new. What are the requirement considerations, how would you break the scope of work, estimate resources durations costs etc.Any guidance / ...

Mar 26, 2018

Updating baselines with multiple open projects

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Hi All,I am having trouble understanding how the baseline updating works when multiple projects are opened at the same time. I want to batch export data on several projects. After opening all the projects, when I want to reassign the baseline, it onl...

Mar 26, 2018

Using two different resource rates in MS Project

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Hi there, I have a project where I want to track both cost and price within the task view Gantt chart. To explain a little more, each of my resources in the resource sheet has two rates, a standard rate, and then a sell rate which I have put into the...

Mar 27, 2018

Delay Duration and Reason capture in Primavera P6

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Hi,I am trying to setup a way in Primavera P6 to help capture all the delay related information, like delay reasons and durations. Delay Reason: I have come across "Delay Reason" activity code, but that will only allow me to provide a list of broad c...

Mar 28, 2018

How to use Activity Duration Type in Primavera P6

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(If the image is too big, you can read the original article at this link : https://doduykhuong.com/2018/03/25/how-to-use-activity-duration-type-in-primavera-p6/ )In Primavera P6, when we assign resource to activity there is a equation:Original Durati...

Mar 31, 2018

EVM Work To Go formula

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My client would like me to provide % contingency left on the project with respect to BAC and EAC.The formula would then be (contingency remaining) / (work left to go)NowFor BAC, fomula would be (BAC - EV) for remaining work to go.For EAC, would the f...

Mar 31, 2018

Baseline changes and misrepresentation to Tribunal

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Hi Experts I need advice If someone alter changes in the Baseline programme knowningly and present the delay analysis based on the altered baseline to the Tribunal , what are the consequences for doing this. Actually i found all schedule has altered ...

Apr 1, 2018