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ahhhh help needed urgently!! links between projects!

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I am a planner for the engineering department of a utlity company, i have been working on putting in dependancy links between my engineering plan and another plan which is used for all construction works. The planner on the construction works has mad...

Jan 18, 2012

How crucial is Delay & Disruption?

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How comfortable would you be having to stand up and defend yourself on Delay & Disruption issues? How crucial is Delay and Disruption as an issue to you?Asta have places available on a two day residential course in London which will involve the devel...

Jan 18, 2012

How to prepare recovery programs from the latest updated program

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Hi guys, I want to make a recovery program from the latest updated program (not the baseline program, but the baseline program with actuals already) in order to meet the deadline. I'm using the columns Earned Value Labor Units (for Actual Progress %)...

Jan 18, 2012

How to prepare recovery programs from the latest updated program

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Hi guys, I want to make a recovery program from the latest updated program (not the baseline program, but the baseline program with actuals already) in order to meet the deadline. I'm using the columns Earned Value Labor Units (for Actual Progress %)...

Jan 18, 2012

Copying a Project from one EPS to another.

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I have a project with 19,000 activities. When I copy this Project from one EPS Node to another, only some of the activities & only some of the activity codes copy over. I have tried the regular copy & paste at the Project Level, I have Exported it & ...

Jan 18, 2012

Activity usage spreadsheet shows planned value in Stop period

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Hi All,i have a project that has non working days calender.The work was planned to remain stopped in october and November.But when I see the Activity usage spreadsheet in the Above said month it is showing Planned value cost.Why it is not zero? Regar...

Jan 18, 2012

Baseline Milestones

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Hi, Has anyone come up with a way to show baseline milestones in MS PRoject as using MSP 2010 so when I baseline the schedule, tasks are the only one showing the baselines.   Tried to do it manually in the Bar Styles option to no avail!   Please repl...

Jan 18, 2012

Day names to appear PM5

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Good day,   I would like my date columns to show the day name (Monday, Tuesday, etc.). Is there a way of doing such? I'm on PM5   Regards,   Brian

Jan 18, 2012

BIM Collaborative Interest Group Meeting No 3 (London)

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We are keen to meet and discuss Building Information Modeling (BIM) with members of our community, and that includes all planners. This will be is our 3rd meeting for this Guild Interest Group within the Guild and we will take a look at some case stu...

May 29, 2011

Qatar’s Guild Interest Group Meeting No 4 (Doha)

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Dear All, At the last meeting we talked about the different subjects members would like presentations and discussions on in the future.  One subject that was bought up was BIM’s and how they will relate to planning.  As it happens through my day job ...

May 29, 2011

Looking for Decent Risk Software

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I am looking for Decent Risk Software   I have the following requirements   1) Integrateable with Primavera and MS project 2) Easy to use 3) Consider Lags and Logic as part of the Risk Assesment. (Example) Optimistic Logic FS-10D /  Pesimistic = FS +...

May 30, 2011

MHRs

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Hianyone knows when and how should we revise the manhours  Regards Ali

May 30, 2011

How to integrate costs within P6

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Hello, I'm a new user with the Primavera software (P6). My question is: how do I do cost input in P6?? If someone could tell me step by step please.... Thank you.

May 30, 2011

Working from home is the key to efficiency

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A lot of people have to do a job for a living, even if it means being exposed to a program of authoritarian propaganda punctuated by many different moments of frantic productivity. Beginning your own business kicks employers to the curb, but the trad...

May 31, 2011

Help! Transmission Lines...

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Greetings!I wish to seek assistance for the below as my experience on this is 0%.Objective is to prepare a master plan of a design and build program for the construction of a 275kV overhead transmission lines.What are key activities to develop a leve...

May 31, 2011

As Late as Possible (ROS)

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We have a Task called ROS (Required on site date) Normally we apply a as late as possible constriant on this task, The Task Predacessor is delivery to site Task Successor is Construction with a Lag (The Theory being that we want everything on ste 2 t...

May 31, 2011

Push to move away from WBS to Activity Codes

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Hii, Anyone gettibng pressure from Company to move away from WBS to using solely Activity Codes? I know primavera/oracle have been pushing this but don't know how far this has gone. Usually non-planners push this type of change.

May 31, 2011

BULK MATERIAL HANDLING WBS FOR AN EPC

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I am working on tailoring a work breakdown structure for the construction of a coal fired power plant for an EPC organisation. I am facing a challenge in defining a WBS that covers the bulk material from engineering, procurement through to constructi...

Jun 1, 2011

How to Restrict other users from editing perticular project

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Dear Guys, what are the different ways to restrict the other users who are viewing to edit the data. i tried to use the exclusive status to the project but again when I see the status from other users it is still in shared mode.why is this happening....

Jun 1, 2011

Does TIME-COST trade offs have any relevance in planning practice?

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Dear all,Probably all of you aware the fact that modern project management is tight together with the development of Pert, and CPM. I guess you know it too, that the original CPM method was a sophisticated cost optmization method, which could optimiz...

Jun 1, 2011