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Overtime Reports

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At home overtime is expensive, our overtime rate for construction work is 2X the regular rate, therefore overtime reports are a necessity.What is your approach to get detailed diagrams and tabular reports for overtime hours and cost vs. regular hours...

Nov 24, 2016

Programme with Conflict

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Hi,As a Planner what is the best way/steps to convince site managers about sequence and duration of programme because on the sites they always have a conflict with the Planner about the programme and that is the reason site manager prepare their own ...

Nov 24, 2016

Procurement Schedule Weights

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Hi All,I am presently working on preparation of overall EPC schedule. I want to add weights to procurement activities like:. PO Placement. Vendor doc. approval. Manufacturing. Inspection. Ex Works I can calculate weights as per total equipment cost b...

Nov 25, 2016

Construction tolerances

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Dear, My problem, in fact , is not related to project management,, but it seems that I couldn't find appropriate area to discuss and that is why I would like to post here for discussion.It is ususally that there are tolerance for individual structura...

Nov 28, 2016

P6 16.2 Import Problem

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Hi All, I have a problem about importing my actual dates to primaveraWhen I selected my excel sheet to import Primavera, P6 notice me thatThe User Preferences used to create this Excel file are not same as your current preferences. Importing this fil...

Nov 28, 2016

Hide Summary %complete

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Hi,I'm looking for a way to keep hide the summary % complete in the percente complete field.ThanksAntonino

Nov 28, 2016

Period Performance

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Hi ive been asked to put in some costs for one of our projects.the month of november has costs of £18.31 so i status the activity and update to next data date. after data date i store period performance so £18.31 shows on resource assignement tab and...

Nov 29, 2016

Project planning for new product Introduction

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I have got below assignment.Create Project Plan for introduction of new product. • Project Plan must encompass all aspects of project from design to launch. Rough Time scales • Product leadtime – 12 weeks • Production time – 2 weeks Note: Accuracy of...

Nov 30, 2016

Units but No Cost

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Activity has units stored in November 2015 of -70000 (but no value in the cost) but is finshed in December 2015 then in the September of 2016 the same activity has units of +70000 (but no cost).if i try to zero the period it just causes the units to ...

Nov 30, 2016

What is the most impressive piece of planning in history?

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What do you think is the most impressive piece of planning in history, in terms of the complexity of the task and successful outcome. Was it Operation Overlord,(D-Day), the Manhattan Project, the Apollo Program, the LHC or something else? This seemed...

Dec 1, 2016

P6 Print function turned off?

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I'm using P6 version 6.2.1 and I'm encountering something I've never seen before. The print, print preview, and page setup functions are all grayed out. I suspect this is a user rights issue, though I've looked and can't see anything obvious. I don't...

Dec 1, 2016

Planning Identification

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What's name of that planning where Planner puts adhesive/sticky different colour notes in conference/meeting room wall/board to show 4/2 weeks forthcoming/lookhead dates for weekly meeting with Site Team, Subcintracor or Design team etc.Regards,

Dec 1, 2016

Help Understanding Resource Allocation

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Happy first planning planet post to me.. :)Hope you guys can help. So I have a schedule in Microsoft Project 2007 and I have a "General Project Management" task which has x amount of hours allocated to it a 1 resource. That task is linked up to the s...

Dec 2, 2016