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Software Suggestion

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Hi All,I am lookingfor advice on software. Currently working on Projects within Pharma industry, we have a Roadmap developed in Excel showing all the projects between 2018 and 2023 (ususlly 5yr rolling calendar). This roadmap has all the major highle...

Dec 7, 2017

Reference-books and Typical Fragment Library

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Corporate project management system usually includes the databases (reference-books) of the corporate standards and templates.These templates usually include the library of typical fragments that are small projects describing creation of typical proj...

Dec 15, 2018

Total Float

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In my project, There are three WBS. The first and third WBS are about project start and finish procedures. And the second WBS is about all project works of different desciplines. Is there any possible technique in P6 to identify the total float based...

Dec 16, 2018

PMIS

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Hi All,Could any one recommend me with an excellent Project Management Information System (PMIS)? I need this for company projects and need to be used by project managers and planners.best,Muataz

Dec 16, 2018

Remaining Units Update Automatically

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I've imported a new project and I have started to update the progress. I've had a few problems:1. When I update the actual units on an activity the actuals are added on to the at completion instead of taken away from at completion units. In other pro...

Dec 17, 2018

Resource cost rounding

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Hello Vladimir,Materials in Spider have an option called Discrete Consumtion which rounds up the consumtion of the material (granted the Backload consuption is set to No).So here is my question, is there a way to do this with resources?Example: Backh...

Dec 17, 2018

User defined columns

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Hi,Does anyone know if its possible to create user defined columns that you can populate from drop down lists?looking to create  a columns where I can have units such as kg, tonne, m , m2 etcRegardsChris

Dec 18, 2018

Spider Macros

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Hello Vladimir,in the latest versions of Spider Macros have been introduced as a new functionality. There are two types of macros:Internal, from what I understand these are macros applied at the project (file) level;External, from what I understant t...

Dec 18, 2018

Baseline

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Every tree or two months, my Schedule Variance increase, my planner modify the baseline eachtime two reduce the variance, is it correct to do it? and if it's correct in which case we have to do it please?

Dec 24, 2018

(2019) Happy Festivities

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Hello everybody,Best wishes to the PP's community as our calendars approach the 2019 switch in approximately two weeks.For the planners taking christmas as a day off, merry christmas and enjoy the days out!  For all the others, planning or not, happy...

Dec 24, 2018

Schedule Percentage complete

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Greetings to everyone. Is there any possible technique in primavera to get all the schedule % complete for each day ? Thanks in advance.

Dec 25, 2018

Historical Data of Projects

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Hi,I would like to seek the expert advice here as to what sort of historical data a planner should have readily on hand by the end of a project, to better prepare for the next one. This would include things like Scope / Rates / Costs.Are there any ot...

Dec 27, 2018

How to erect a recovery schedule

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Hi every body,I'm looking for a methedology to build a recovery schedule, because we are late and a lot of gaps was noted and our contractor was very furious, what is the best solution please ?

Dec 28, 2018

Scheduling

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Can someone tell me the maximum number of activities for a single planner to maitain efficiently ?ThanksRoberto

Jan 1, 2019