Gantt Charts: What’s The Alternative?
Forum TopicHi Guys,Here's a look at Gantt charts and the alternatives http://bit.ly/zKobZXColin
Mar 7, 2012
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P6 V8.2 Manual
Forum TopicHi All,Can anybody have the P6 V8.2 manual?. I am looking for the guide on how to use the P6 8.2 program professionally.regards,KK
Mar 7, 2012
Repeated milestone/ activity
Forum TopicHey, Anyone could help me how to incorporate the milestone or activity repeating only for 4 hours in a week on the same time and on the same day.?Lets suppose if the project is of 10 weeks, and i have a project meeting of 2 hours on each monday, then...
Mar 8, 2012
Contraint Star Shown on Start Date but no Constraint was mad
Forum TopicI have two activities in my P6 schedule that have a star next to the start date but when you look at the activity details under the status tab, it shows no constraint. I scheduled and the star remains to be there. Any ideas of how to fix this?
Mar 8, 2012
Quick Tour of Primavera P6 R8.2 Team Member Web Application
Forum TopicHi Guys, Here's a quick tour of the new P6 Team Member web application complete with high-res screen grabs http://bit.ly/AFh71W At the bottom of the article, there's a link to a 2 1/2 minute video showing a walk-through of Team Member in action. I h...
Mar 8, 2012
Budgeted Cost
Forum TopicIn my Project Schedule i have addded only Material and Non Labor resources. I am able to manually edit the Budgeted Cost field in the Activity Deatils tab. However since this is a entity that is calculated by multiplying the Budgeted Units with the P...
Mar 8, 2012
Baseline
Forum TopicI created a project by importing an Excel spread sheet and a baseline was created in my project. The tasks are change orders and we will link this project to the original project by opening both projects. Since the change orders are not part of t...
Mar 8, 2012
4 Cool Features of P6 Professional R8.1 You May Have Missed
Forum TopicP6 Professional hasn't had many major pm feature enhancements for quite a while. Release 8.0, 8.1 and 8.2 haven't really delivered any new planning features, to some disappointment.But I think many users are missing out on a game changer in P6 Profe...
Mar 9, 2012
baseline
Forum Topichi my friendshow can i make import or export in p6 without loosing the baselinesbecause every time when i made export from p6 i lose the baselineswith best regardsmahmoud el shamy
Mar 9, 2012
Using MS Project in Maintenance Planning and Scheduling
Forum TopicGreetings all,I would appreciate it if you could share some notes from your experience, suggestions and ideas on using MS Project in maintenance operations. Especially planning, scheduling and managing shutdowns. Any implementations of multiple proje...
Mar 9, 2012
LD's
Forum TopicHi All,How to avoid LD's and to justify.RegardCy
Mar 10, 2012
Quantity take off Softwares
Forum TopicDears, Can any one suggest me a Good software for quantity Take off. Thanks G.Karthikeyan
Mar 11, 2012
Clash Detection in BIM
Forum TopicPlease find herewith great article on the topic of Clash detection in BIMhttp://www.bimjournal.com/2012/03/clash-detection-in-bim-modeling/ buildingSMART MENA & India is hosting a User Group in Abu Dhabi on the 19th March which will feature practical...
Mar 11, 2012
Communications in planning & scheduling
Forum TopicI'd like to get the opinion from the senior planners / schedulers as to how they handle the communications regarding the schedule. For instance, how do you publish the schedule once it is updated? How do you respond when someone else other than your ...
Mar 12, 2012
Difference between Pertmaster & Primavera Risk Analysis
Forum TopicHI,As the subject suggests i'm keen to find out if there is any difference in use/functionality etc between Pertmaster and Primavera Risk Analysis. I have used Pertmaster briefly in the past on P3 programmes but i may need to use Primavera risk Anal...
Mar 12, 2012
I need advice plz in linking projects
Forum TopicDear All valued membersQ. I have 14 small projects (similar in scope with small variation in details, scattered all over the country) which are planned in separate 14 programs but they came under one contract. For EOT purposes I am supposed to show...
Mar 12, 2012
Earned Value Management Lite (EVM Lite)?
Forum TopicHi Guys, Here's an attempt to define EVM Lite that is a term widely touted among vendors http://bit.ly/z1MqFS Let me know what you think. Emily
Mar 12, 2012
Resource Usage Profile
Forum TopicHi, I developed one programme with labour units input (resource). While preparing the resource distribution month wise, it was working smoothly from Toools- Report Wizard. But not working properly with Resource spread sheet. Problem in detail: 1. Fro...
Mar 12, 2012
Programming and Scheduling of Repetitive workstreams
Forum TopicI am looking for some guidance and personal experiences of programme scheduling for repetitive work on numerous sites. Although this relates to construction work, I feel sure the same principles would apply to inspection or maintenance schedules as w...
Mar 12, 2012
forecast curve
Forum Topichai can anyone give me sample how how forecast curve looks like. i have no idea how its looks like and since there is considerable delay in our procurment our clinet (Total) has asked us to put the forecast curve ( we had only planned curve and actua...
Mar 12, 2012