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Activities with neg (-) Total Float

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Hi Friends,  I encountered strange situation, got a schedule to review from 1 project and surprisingly found activities with neg (-) float but they are not critical, in fact most of the activities. Regards, Riaz

Jul 23, 2013

Welcome...

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Dear Members,We at Planning Planet have created this Guild Discussion Forum to help our friends and colleagues at The Guild of Project Controls (GPC) to share their news, views and updates until they are in a position to run their own dedicated websi...

Jul 20, 2013

Table of Contents for our draft Cost Management Standard of Practice

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Dear PPers,We are rapidly completing the Table of Contents for our draft Cost Management Standard of Practice, and will be looking for participants in the development of the Standard. I have discussed the current ToC with a number of people and recei...

Jul 23, 2013

Learn The Different Primavera P6 Percent Complete Types

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We get a lot of calls asking us to explain the different Percent Complete types in Primavera P6. Here's an article that explains each of them, when to use them and what the expected outcome would be http://ow.ly/nerEa I hope this helps, Emily

Jul 23, 2013

Budgeted Labor Units changes after import

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Dear Schedulers,For some reason after importing my schedule in another computer with P6, my budgeted labor units slightly changes (from 805,700 manhours to 789,500); all user settings seem to be identical in both machines. Please help, I gotta get my...

Jul 23, 2013

Resource constrained schedule does not seem to work for SF links

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Dear all,Can you please check the below example.Unless I am missing something it looks for me, that Resource Constrained Schedule does not produce correct results for Start to Finish linked tasks.See example belowInitial scheduleResource Contrained s...

Jul 23, 2013

Subcontractor delayed and faces LD's but entire project not affected

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Hi guys,I offer following situation for your review and advice :Subcontractor's scope is part of a larger project involving other subcontractors. Subcontractor has caused a delay to the completion of its scope which would enable Contractor to draw li...

Jul 24, 2013

Problem - Resources being phased after activity completion

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Hi This relates to P6 release 6.0 We are noticing a problem where the resource histogram profiles are running well past the activity completion dates. Does anyone have some idea as to why this is happening? We think it may be a software error where a...

Jul 25, 2013

Resource Usage Profile in P6

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Dear All,I am using P6 to develop the baseline schedule. As per the client requirement, the time unit for resources is days instead of hours. After inputting all the resources and while trying to develop the Resource Profile view, the following issue...

Jul 25, 2013

Global Change in P6

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I am used to P3 and recently shifted to P6. Kindly help me to slove this issue with P6.I have one user defined column as "Cost" (all numeric values) and I want to put this cost as "Budgeted Cost" by global change for one resouce "0Cost" to produce ca...

Jul 8, 2013

PLANNING AND PROJECT CONTROL

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Hi All,Do you spare some time and let me know what is the meaning of Planning & Project control from your perspective?Much appreciated in advance,Regards,Sakandar

Jul 8, 2013

Different types of programs during project life cycle.

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Dear AllI create this topic for the sake of understanding different types of programs during project life cycle, i will mention the types i already know but if someone here can explain all of them one by one and when we can use each of them it would ...

Jul 8, 2013

275kV/400kV Cable Laying Norms

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Dear Planners,Does anybody have any norms on durations that would be useful for laying 275kV/400kV cables?I am planning a project that requires this work. Thanks John

Jul 8, 2013

RDCPM- Relationship Driven CPM

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The following is a link to a presentation by Primavera in which it talks about "link categories" which I should find under Plan/Links/Link Categories/User Fields.  Problem is that I do not find the tab "Links" under Plan.  I am using PRA 8.7.56.  The...

Jul 9, 2013

Bucket planning

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Dearss..How to enable bucket planning in p6 to enable to enter budgeted units manually.

Jul 10, 2013

Example of apartment block time planning schedule

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Hi Guys,I am hoping one of you can help me, I am currently in SA studying a course in construction project management and one of my assignments is to produce a project schedule for an apartment block consitsing of 20 units. The course is based in the...

Jul 11, 2013

difference between VOWD, EV and AC

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I know exactly how to calculate and what does it mean EV (earned value) and AC (actual cost).  But I'm a little confused about VOWD (value of the work done). So, I would like to know if you can share with me some online informations where I can see e...

Jul 12, 2013

Managing Remote Workers

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Here are 5 tips for managing remote workers http://ow.ly/mTZH7 I hope you find them useful, Emily

Jul 12, 2013

Contiguous & Interruptible activities

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Since Primavera has removed "Contiguous" & "Interruptible" options for activities in P6,so what is the difference between Start Float,Finish Float and Most critical now?  

Jul 12, 2013

how to convert duration to weight in primavera ?

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hi to all experts,here i am searching a way in primavera which is that how to convert my Original Duration to weight ?Some details are here :My manager asked me to load overall project cost only to Construction Phase. But for Engineering & Procuremen...

Jul 14, 2013