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Main project management software features

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Gentile Sig.,Sono uno studente universitario del corso di Project Management all'interno del programma di ingegneria gestionale dell'Università di Palermo, e attualmente sto sviluppando la mia tesi di laurea magistrale. A questo proposito, lo scopo d...

Apr 25, 2020

VBA code for setting Income value

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Hi expertsI'm writing macro for Asta and hit the wall when I want to assign income value in task.Below code finds Income Cost Centre assigned, but can't find a way to set value.Dim t As TaskBaseDim bcv As BarChartView Dim ca As CostAllocation Set bcv...

Apr 25, 2020

Critical Path Analysis

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Hi, everyoneI am managing a project for a client.I have claimed EOT, for the weather delays and the Principal Agent( PA) has asked me to support my claims with the critical path analysis (CPA)using MS Project ,Please HelpThanks , RegardsDavid

Apr 27, 2020

Exercise in Critical Path Analysis

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I just posted on LinkedIn a practice exercise I've used in my graduate courses for critical path analysis. It particularly focuses on understanding a network logic diagram and computing critical path darg and drag cost.Would be happy to answer any qu...

Apr 29, 2020

Alternatives to lags and dummy activities

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I haven't seen a good answer to this in the general forum and would really like to know the accepted theory or best practice.Example the engineering specification for a piece of equipment is available in M2, lets say it happens to be one of the first...

Apr 30, 2020

Forecast Schedule

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Dear Sirs,I would like to ask favor/ help for making the Forecast Schedule.Currently, I already completed the update on our Baseline Schedule to the current cut-off last 24.04.2020.After I run it , the outcome appears to be a -166 float. With this ap...

Apr 30, 2020

Critical Drivers help please

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Morning all, I have a plan in which I have an activity being pushed out and I wondered if there is an easy way to isolate it's critical driving predecessors going back to the initial activity causing the move?  Manually it's taking ages. Thanks in ad...

Apr 30, 2020

retro insert Baseline

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Hi,i have made a copy of a schedule and updated it but forgot to copy the baseline is there a way i can retrospectivly copy across the older copy of the schedule to a baseline in my new copy?

Apr 30, 2020

Show activity dates in EPS view in EPPM

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Dear all,I have a need to see dates of some of the milestones of a project in EPS view in EPPMIn general In general I can see, that some of the dates can be shown in EPS view:e.g. :Start / FinishBL Start / BL finish But what if I create a Milestone1 ...

Apr 30, 2020

Total Float not calculating correctly

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Hello-  I have a problem with the total float not showing correctly. I have activity47 which is completing on 13MAY2022 which will be a predecessor to activity 6  ( meaning first activity 47 will complete and then activity 6 will follow). My acitivit...

Apr 30, 2020

Main project management software features

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Dear Mr./Ms,I'm an undergraduate student of the Project Management course within the Management Engineering Program of the University of Palermo, and I am currently developing my Master Degree thesis. In this regard, the purpose of my thesis is to fi...

May 3, 2020

Primavera WBS as PDF

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Is that possible to export Primavera WBS as chart view to PDF ? 

May 3, 2020

Cost & Budget Loading

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Edited after more research:My EPC project includes materials, engineered equipment, subcontracts, constructions equipment, indirect and dirct labor. I would like to try the cost / budget loading and earned value functions of P6. It seems that the com...

May 7, 2020

Purpose of Retired activities in Schedule

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Hi Expats,In one of my UK clients schedule, they advised  to retire completed activites and non performing activites in the schedule. and my collegues recommended to change the duration of non performed activities duration to 1D in the schedule to av...

May 11, 2020

Construction Planner Survey

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Hi All, I am doing some research for a MSc in Construction Project Management, looking for some feedback from construction planners in industry. The aims of the research is to investigate the practical application of Planning and Scheduling in the co...

May 14, 2020

Expanding Task Usage View

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Hi,Just wondering if there is a simple way to expand each task on the Task Usage View so that it shows individual resources against the task rather than the total for all resources?In the example below, I have manually expanded task 213 to show the t...

May 14, 2020