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How to remove actual / progress from Primavera P6 schedule

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We have a Primavera schedule with actual data. Now we want to remove the actual so that we can have an As-Planned schedule.I will show you how to do it in this article.We have a simple project with actual data.First we go to Project window -> Calcula...

Aug 1, 2016

Free White Paper: Top Ten Prerequisites of a Schedule Baseline

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FREE WHITE PAPER: TOP TEN PREREQUISITES OF A SCHEDULE BASELINEWe all want a reliable project baseline for all established processes to work well. The official schedule baseline gives the project a good line of sight to what it wants. Having a good ba...

Aug 3, 2016

CPM Baselines: Where Did Your CPM Baseline Go?

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is sans-baseline becoming de riguer? - a rhetorical question.CPM baselines are snarky by nature. Many project teams regard them as ends in themselves: issued preliminarily, and then discarded, as opposed to “that to which all that follows shall be co...

Aug 6, 2016

CPM Baseline, Recovery, Mitigation Schedules: What’s in a Name?

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Stakeholders struggle mightily with the definition of the terms baseline, recovery,mitigation, and completion schedules, and how they differ from one another. That is most unfortunate for CPM schedulers who invariably are handed client directives tha...

Aug 6, 2016

Full Phase CPM Schedule Management

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The central focus of construction project schedules is invariably on the build-out trajectory, or more specifically, the builder’s work and responsibilities. Despite design deliverables residing squarely within the critical path, they are seldom adeq...

Aug 6, 2016

How Google Tango VR/AR Apps Could Level the BIM Playing Field

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Designers will forced to begrudgingly collaborate with builders in program coordination: they will sink or swim in these unchartered waters.Despite the hype - such as that which I brought to light in McGraw Hill’s skewed Annual BIM Survey, there soon...

Aug 6, 2016

How to use Earned Value Management in Primavera P6

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Primavera support you to control project performance by Earned Value Management technique.I will show you how to use it in Primavera.We have a simple project to finish casting 10 column.1 column / day.100 $ / columnEach activity is assigned resource ...

Aug 8, 2016

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

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

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

How do you put your project team in the zone?

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"Individual commitment to a group effort--that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."  Vince Lombardi When you hear about flow and being in the zone, you almost always associate that with sports. The performa...

Aug 17, 2016

Beyond Earned Value Management

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If I asked you what the trickiest part of project management was for your enterprise, what would you say?  If you answered managing the diverse projects in your portfolio – you’re not alone. Most businesses work on a variety of projects (whether it b...

Aug 19, 2016

How does Progress Line in Primavera P6 work?

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Primavera provide a tool called Progress Line to compare Actual Progress (Activity % Complete) with Baseline on Gantt chart.I will show you how to do it.We have a simple project. It is assigned a Project Baseline.Then we will update the project.Activ...

Aug 22, 2016

The story behind the negative float in P6

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The negative float is a very popular hot topic in the scheduling field and it’s generated when the late dates are less than the early dates and usually it’s accompanied with a delay in the project, and a lot of project management professionals think ...

Aug 25, 2016

Determine the longest path of a resource leveled schedule in P6

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Unfortunately when it comes to resources and resource leveling, P6 model is absolute. P6 doesn’t calculate the float correctly and the longest path will not be accurate since the late and early dates will not change after leveling.Primavera P6 doesn’...

Aug 25, 2016

Egad! It is the Most Likely Schedule!

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Most Likely Schedule, what is it?It is one of the questions asked more often in risk-based planning and scheduling (Related topic: Data Maturity, Quality and Project Integration).  Project directors, managers, planners, and schedulers have to know wh...

Sep 2, 2016

Time: Conserving the Precious Resource

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Time is the dominant constraint on all projects.  There is a constant race against the clock.  Many projects have fixed completion dates determined by external forces. Projects that fall behind schedule, struggle to catch up.  I have never met a proj...

Sep 4, 2016

Detect changes made to calendars between two projects in P6

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The Claim digger or Schedule Comparison is a widely used tool in P6 to compare between two projects and detect the differences.One of the main shortage of the Claim Digger or the Schedule Comparison tool is detecting the changes in calendars.The tool...

Sep 6, 2016