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Managing project Portfolio in Spider

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Dear all, I just created this generic post about managing project portfolios, but I want to clarify some details on how Spider is designed to use it, as I think it is well thought through in Spider.In my understanding that it the cycle is like this:1...

Feb 21, 2023

10 LinkedIn Profiles Project Planners and Schedulers Should Follow

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The LinkedIn profiles below will be the first 10 profiles I would recommend to any Project Planner or Scheduler looking for people to follow on LinkedIn, as reading these peoples’ posts, comments and likes will enrich your LinkedIn feed.I learn from ...

Feb 24, 2023

MS Project Survey (ONLY FOR ENGINEERS)

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Hi All, I am a University Masters student studying Civil Engineering. I’m currently in my final year and I’m doing a dissertation on 'The functionality of MS PROJECT'. If you are an ENGINEER and use/have used MS PROJECT, it would massively help if yo...

Feb 24, 2023

MS Project Survey (ONLY FOR ENGINEERS)

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Hi All, I am a University Masters student studying Civil Engineering. I’m currently in my final year and I’m doing a dissertation on 'The functionality of MS PROJECT'. If you are an ENGINEER and use/have used MS PROJECT, it would massively help if yo...

Feb 24, 2023

Resource Assignment table copy and paste in Excel

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Hi,I'm trying to copy the resource assignment table and paste it in Excel.I have divided the labor units by the number of units per period in order to show the number of resources required.Meanwhile, when pasting in Excel, the labor units are pasted ...

Feb 28, 2023

Driving Predecessor/Succesor Filter

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Hello, I am trying to create a filter that would show only Driving Predecessor/Successor or both for an activity. Any suggestions? Best regards, Bogdan

Feb 28, 2023

Would everyone here use a 3/1 data date for February progress?

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Would everyone here use a 3/1 data date for February progress? (aside from some stated date like the 15th etc.) - this way it would match Feb. cost data etc., I always heard that the data date line was like 8am or whatever starting time.  I assume in...

Feb 28, 2023

Productivity Periods and Percentage change of assigmnet

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Hello Vladimir, I saw that Spider has developed the possibility to user productivity periods, which is awsome! These productivity periods are time-based, similar to cost periods. This is great for modeling lower productivity during certain periods li...

Mar 1, 2023

Resource Management Software

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Saviom is a world leader in providing Enterprise Resource Management and Workforce planning solutions. Saviom's solution has been implemented by many Fortune 500 companies, including but not limited to Siemens, Telstra, Fujitsu, GWS. It has helped or...

Mar 2, 2023

Large project actual data consolidation

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Vladimir, On a large EPC project what would be the best way to distribuite and consolidate actual data?Spider can do this in many ways:Distribuite WBS to Managers and Consolidate after actual data has been entered;Distribuite Actual Data Table to Doc...

Mar 2, 2023

Milestone-Kanban: A Hybrid Project Scheduling Technique

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The Milestone-Kanban Schedule (MKS) is a hybrid project scheduling and management technique that combines traditional and agile best practices.  The technique is well-suited for simple and complicated projects where the required deliverables are clea...

Mar 4, 2023

Primavera SDK - ODBC Problem (MS Access link)

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For years now we've been using an MS Access database to upload Actual Labour units across a portfolio of projects, but recently this has failed due to an ODBC error (likely relating to recent server updates).When I open ODBC Data Source Administrator...

Mar 7, 2023