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B.o.Q Vs Specification

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I am referring to the Mike  part of reply  to my previous post  "..........This is based on the principle that if there is no BOQ item to price then the obligation is not included in the contract price....." . I have case where certain items are not ...

May 14, 2012

project finish date

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Hi friends, I have finish constraint for my project eg: must finish on or before 12-dec-2012 and I scheduled my project but the project showing the finish date as 16-feb 2013 why it is happening like this... your expert advice highly appreciated.. Re...

May 14, 2012

effect of mile stone on scheduling

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Hi Friends, If we put some milestones for some activity start in WBS levels...will it affect any problem while scheduling..will it make any effect in activity floats..? your views are most welcome. Regards Sunil.

May 14, 2012

Duration increased in tracking schedule

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Dear All, I have a activity whose original duration is 125 days, while in baseline it is calculating it properly. but in tracking schedule, the finish date is increasing beyond the allocated 125 days to 238 days. i checked everything calenders, durat...

May 15, 2012

Project Manager vs Scheduler - who to do what?

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Who should take the initiative of ensuring there is a proper schedule in a project, is it a scheduler or a project manager?Who should provide information that needs to be fed in a schedule, is it the PM or the scheduler through reading all project do...

May 15, 2012

P6 v8.1 - urgent

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Dear all,i am new at using P6 V8.1. I am getting this massage every time i wanna open a new menu. The massage is: This website wants to install the following add-on: 'Java (TM) SE Runtime Environment 6.0 update 24' from 'Sun Micro systems, Inc.' but ...

May 15, 2012

3 Ways to Realize Project Benefits

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Hi Guys, Here are three tips to help build a strong benefits culture for your Program Management Office (PMO) http://bit.ly/KpT9dj Emily

May 15, 2012

Using Resource Curves ?

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Firstly can I just say that I am a not greatly experienced P6 user and this might be something fairly simple I am doing wrong. Here goes - Can anyone suggest how I best achieve my desired report or view? To explain - I have a number of future project...

May 15, 2012

Tower Crane Hook Time Analysis

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Hi people, Is there any straight forward formula to calculate the tower crane hook times, including the down time of the crane. So far I have for 50 hours / week production duration is equal to 35 hours / week crane production. Is my assumption corre...

May 15, 2012

Global Change to show Days as Month Duration>

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Hello Recently moved to high level planning in Months & Quarter duration. Scary as I have come from Hourly Planning!! I remember from P3 traning years ago that you can create a Global Change, probably with a Text Field Column to show Days into Months...

May 16, 2012

P6 start & finishes fixed

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I am creating a revised target program. I have a number of activities which start dates are pushing out past the data date or will not fix to the date I assign. These activities have no constraints and no relationships! Something is driving them but ...

May 16, 2012

DANG Project Centre - New Way Manage your Risk and Issue

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Hello All,THE PROBLEMMost company find it a challenge to know all the risks face by the project. Your worker that is at the "Coal Face" or at the problem area is aware of this.Unfortunately, they keep it in an excel spread sheet, which no one is awar...

May 16, 2012

DANG Project Centre - New Way Manage your Risk and Issue

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Hello All,THE PROBLEMMost company find it a challenge to know all the risks face by the project. Your worker that is at the "Coal Face" or at the problem area is aware of this.Unfortunately, they keep it in an excel spread sheet, which no one is awar...

May 16, 2012

planning for communication project

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Dear Friends/Colleague Now i have come up with serious problem for planning   I have working planning feild since last 2 year.  All the planning i did as Building construction. Now i get a new assignment as Communication project. I dont have any idea...

May 16, 2012

Duration increase impacts my budgeted quantities

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Hi All, I am having some issues with budgeted qtys/actual qtys/ remaining qtys. My example is a simple one, I have an activity - Open Drain Lining. I have added a material resource and assigned a total qty of 710sqm. The task itself has now started a...

May 17, 2012

Attachment PDF file in Note

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Hello all Planner        I'm using P6; Release 6.0. In the Notebook of each activity, that we can attach our note such as Picture and Link. But this function  unable to attachment PDF file. I would like to attach PDF files for for information as I ca...

May 17, 2012