Dear all,several PM tools (e.g. Primavera, MS Project, Spider) have possibility to have inter-project dependencies.Whilst they differ in implementation, the idea is the same in all tools.But the question is: what shall be the general approach to mana...
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...
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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...
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...
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How long does it take to build / construct a school?
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 ...
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
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...
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...
at what point in is a DB held accountable for how long it takes to get submittals through and later procurements? For example, switchgear - if they do not do this right away it will not be there in time - is that on them. What if submittals for win...
3rd party tools for P6 - which are good for printing resource data, and what does it provide? What is the best report native to P6? I just want to print how many workers of each trade per week. Data and graph would be nice.
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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...
What is the general legal thresh-hold to kick a GC off of a project?
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...
While Microsoft Project does not have a straight of the vbox Level of Effort activity type like primavera P6, you can still add Hammock or Level of Effort tasks to your Microsoft Project schedule, using one of 2 workarounds. The first workaround is t...
Best system to connect CPM sched with Submittal log with SOV (sched of values) ? - essential but difficult. With the increase in data systems, there has been an increase in non-essentials getting in the way of essentials. More work, less hours per...
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...