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Value of Work Done

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I'm a consultant and recently been involved with an implementation of a cost control system for some Oil & Gas projects that involved heavy Value of Work Done (VOWD).I'm very familiar with earned value and initially I thought VOWD was just another na...

Sep 24, 2015

99 Free Project Tips

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99 Free MS Project and PM tips: http://www.mpug.com/articles/99-tip-mania/ 

Sep 24, 2015

Importing excel into p6 Using activities with multiple resources

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Hopefully someone can helpI have exported from the resource and resource assignments from p6 into exceland i have changed a number of the quanitites (ensuring the numbers remain as labels)however, when i import the excel file back in,it only seems to...

Sep 25, 2015

New S curves software

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To create S cuves with a planning software, including baseline stalls: http://jym-engineering.blogspot.fr/p/s-curves.htmlBR, JYMhttp://jym-engineering.fr/

Sep 28, 2015

New specs restrict the use of SS & FF lags

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To all:Have increasingly run into the restriction of using no SS or FF lags and of having to remove redundant logic. In ACOE specs and now on a non-military project in Hawaii. Do not think they have the legal right to request this as these items are ...

Sep 28, 2015

Delay Claim

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Hello Everyone,Please help me in learning about this topic regarding Claim. The situation is as expalained belowThe days for project completion : 100Delay from Contractor will push the completion days to - 130Delay from Client will push the completio...

Sep 29, 2015

Progress percentage and scope of work

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Dear All,The case scenario of the Project is like this :After completion of gradeslab client removed the scope of the building and given to another contractor.My question is Option A: Upto that instance can we put the remaining works of that building...

Sep 29, 2015

Asta Power Project tutorials

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Good morning everyone,Due to the heavy work load I am struggling to attend the Asta courses. Only free time I have is the off work hours.As I am trying to improve my Asta power project user skills I used the watch the tutorial videos  on youtube whic...

Sep 30, 2015

Split bar

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Hi All,After updating a MS Project Schedule, split bars are visible for the updated activities(i assume due to the logical links). How to avoid it and show a normal current bar for the full remaining duration. ThanksBest RegardsKannan

Sep 30, 2015

Unit rate

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Hi Can u tell me what are the factors have to consider when building up unit rate for five storey building?

Oct 2, 2015

A Statistical Approach to Estimating

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Here we look at the principles and approaches to aid the project manager’s attempt to accurately estimate the duration and/or cost of a project http://ow.ly/SW2hK

Oct 2, 2015

measuring against the baseline

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I am trying to get a formula that acts as a "early warning" spot light in the number field against the finish variance e.g. if my base line finish is 40 days. What I want help with is the IF formulaif the finish is 40 days away or greater then the sy...

Oct 4, 2015

Liquidity Damage (LD)

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Hi Everyone,I would like to learn about LD. In one of the contract we have it is written as,Liquidity Damage will start after 15th Sep if the project is not complete . " The production would be only started upon completion of the project" which gives...

Oct 4, 2015

Importing actual progress in a schedule

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Dear All,Due to a variation order, the approved baseline programme has been revised with the incorporation of the variation item and few changes in the logic as mitigation.In the last updated programme (without variation), out of 11,000 activities ne...

Oct 6, 2015

FEED - Front End Design

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Hello Everyone,I have been on the EPC projects from Contractors side till now for O & G company. I would like to learn when a engineering company is awarded FEED Study (Basis of Design & Statement of requirement is given by the Client) who from the e...

Oct 7, 2015

Revised Baseline and Revised S-Curve

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Dear All,Kindly share your input/thoughts for the following situation.After the baseline programme is approved.At the middle of the project a variation was issued by the Client and the Contractor issued an EOT notification for the delay in permit for...

Oct 7, 2015

CPM and PDM methods

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Hello to everyone, i'm running a dissertation about project management and i would like to ask about those two methos.I want to know if we run the same project with CPM and then with MPM do i expect always the same resuls? Are there any articles abou...

Oct 7, 2015