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Risk Registers or Schedule Analysis

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QUESTIONDear Mr Risk,We run intensive risk workshops every month where we run through an ever growing register of what might go wrong and form all sorts of aspects – quality, finance, war!, subcontractor problems, flood, collapse, changes as well as ...

Nov 21, 2012

Optimistic and Pessimistic Durations

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QUESTION Dear Mr Risk,I have populated my schedule with optimistic and pessimistic durations that sit around the durations assigned in our proposed baseline. We have run our analysis package and produced a very nice ‘normal curve’ with various percen...

Nov 21, 2012

Defining Activity Codes in Primavera 6 R8.1

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What are Activity Codes in P6?            Activity codes can be assumed as Categories under which we categorize the activities. E.g. if a project has 3000 activities then it is very hard to manage all the activities or to filter out some specific act...

Nov 24, 2012

News: Friday 6th April 2012

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NEWS UPDATE..Dear Planners, Schedulers and Project Controls Professionals.Here is an update from us with some current and, we hope, pertinent news.Regards... Planning Planet TeamPLANNER & SCHEDULER AWARDS...The Planning & Scheduling Awards and Sympos...

Apr 5, 2012

Building Information Modelling Project Controls Ideas Workshop

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Dear Friends,Due to the growth in interest in Building Information Modelling and the Guild of Project Controls’ professional standards, we are facilitating an ideas-workshop in Central London.  It is free to attend and will be lead by David Philp who...

Aug 23, 2012

Calendar for scheduling relationship lags

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QUESTION Dear Mr P6 Civils,When running our calculations in P6 8.2, we noticed that under schedule options, the calendar for scheduling relationship lags was set to Successor Activity Calendar.  I assumed is should be scheduling off of Predecessor Ac...

Dec 14, 2012

Introduction to Primavera 6 R8.1 (P6 R8.1)

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By the Introduction to P6 R8.1, we mean the basic understanding and procedures required to start up a new project in P6 R8.1. As we know that the P6 is one of the leading softwares in the world in the field of Project Planning and COntrol; it has som...

Jan 6, 2013

OBS and EPS in Primavera P6

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The EPS (Enterprise Project Structure) is a logical, meaningful, hierarchical arrangement of all the projects in your organization. This is a view of the company showing its areas of operations.EPS is a hierarchical arrangement of projects in an orga...

Feb 17, 2015

Ownership of Float

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Ownership of Float BACKGROUNDWho owns the float? The purpose of this article is not to re-invent the wheel and dwell in to the complexity which already revolves around this Million dollar question. However, this question commands utmost respect regar...

Jul 18, 2015

Human mistakes

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As I observed working at different international power plant construction project over the world, the huge amount of human mistakes is significantly grows from one project schedule update to another during the whole project lifecycle from kick-off me...

Dec 21, 2014

Utilizing CPM Schedules to Track Resources Can Cuts Costs

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Aegis Project Controls’ primary purpose is to support project management teams in their efforts to minimize the duration, risk and cost associated with their projects. While critical Path Method schedules are widely recognized for their ability to ma...

Jun 26, 2017

PP Project Controls Gathering (Johannesburg, SA)

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[[wysiwyg_imageupload:5598:]]Location: Antonio's Italian Kitchen Lonehill Shopping Centre, Johannesburg, Fourways, SATopics:Networking with like-minded professionals from various Industries and PC disciplinesPossible job opportunities through network...

May 2, 2018

PP Project Controls Gathering (Derby, UK)

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[[wysiwyg_imageupload:5594:]]Location: The Reading Parlour, The Brunswick Inn, 1 Railway Terrace, Derby DE1 2RU, EnglandTopics:We meet up, say hello and generally talk and complain about work issuesSuggestions for future gathering(s) (i.e. location, ...

May 2, 2018

项目控制人员集合令:上海,中国/Project Controls Gathering (Shanghai, CHINA)

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[[wysiwyg_imageupload:5612:]]项目控制人员集合令:上海,中国/Project Controls Gathering: Shanghai, ChinaLocation/地点: Twosome Coffee,No318, Fuzhou Road, Shanghai/上海福州路318号途尚咖啡(福州路店)Topics/主题:1.The Guild of Project Controls and Certificates Introduction/项目控制协会GPC介绍及认证...

May 8, 2018

PP Project Controls Gathering (Atyrau, Kazakhstan)

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[[wysiwyg_imageupload:5647:]]Location: Kazakhstan, Atyrau, 12A - Bavarius Beer HouseTopics:We meet up, say hello and generally talk about work issuesSuggestions for future gatherings (location, dates, topics. etc)Attendees: Please signup (you need to...

May 30, 2018

PP Project Controls Gathering (Qatar, Asia)

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[[wysiwyg_imageupload:5669:]]Location...The Radisson Blu Hotel Doha, Salwa Road, Intersection of the C Ring Road, Doha, Qatar in The Library Bar on the 11th floor.Topics...We meet up, say hello and generally talk about work issues.Suggestions for fut...

Jun 8, 2018

PP Project Controls Gathering (Stavanger, Norway)

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[[wysiwyg_imageupload:5674:]]Location...At the offices of Creator Makerspace AS, Lagerveien 9, 4033 Stavanger.Topics...We meet up, say hello and generally talk about work issues.Suggestions for future gathering(s) (i.e. location, dates, topics, etc.)...

Jun 11, 2018