Hi, 1. When I use the data line to update my activities, it automatically completes certain tasks which should still be in progress?2. Once some activities have been progressed, I F9 and some of the increase in duration?3. If I manually select a task...
Hi, I Have set a project up in P6.7 I used the Physical % complete and Performance % Complete and set the WBS to Activity % Complete, Assigned a material resource with a value of R1 and it rolled up the percentage perfectly. I have imported the proje...
There are some common mistakes made during the creation of project schedules, particularly by folks who are new to the art. In this article I’ll be pointing out a few of the most frequent scheduling faux pas that we encounter out in the field, and ta...
Dear all,I seem not be able to grasp the concept of a cost component and cost center. This seems to be quite different from what you have in MSP and seem to give a user a lot of possibilities.I realize that I am may be being lazy to spend sufficient ...
See an excellent slide deck about pmo value proposition and strategies at http://www.humanwareonline.com/project-management/center/project-management-office-fasi-di-realizzazione/The blog is italian but the presentation is in english language (from L...
Hi, Please need assistance.Is there a way to repeat/show the same ACTIVITY/s using GROUP & SORT without having to duplicate or copy/paste the ACTIVITY/s?i.e. I have a "CEILING Installation" activity under PROJECT OVERVIEW WBS (which I assigned to a P...
May be I am asking it from a wrong forum but can someone tell me where could one could find questions and answers to pass PMI-SP exam? I will be thankful.Best RegardsMeraj Zia
Dear Mike/ All ExpertsIn one of the Asta Examples projects named as ‘House Project Example’, using task per mode method two bars are shown as Overlapping bars in cross red and cross green colors.How can I make/show any bar as overlapping bar in task...
Last week I sent a .XER file and a PDF of the schedule to my Client, yesterday Client call me arguing that the critical path was different in PDF from P6, after a few hours we realized that the problem is that in his computer the total float of the ...
Dear All, Proud to be a member of planning planet, this is my first question.I am used to maintining 2 resources in my schedules - Manpower and cost. In baseline, both are converted to percentage (10000 points) and are updated further in agreement wi...
Dear all, This is for a project using NEC3, but I'm unfortunitely on a site without a copy of the NEC to hand.The client is stating the reason for not accepting our programme as being because there are multiple critical paths shown in the programme. ...
hi, Please how you write a filter or global change to display activities forecasted more than 30D of the last update.I have the last update saved as a basline.CheersK
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Dear all, I was looking at Floats, DRAG and FLEX in Spider. With Floats and DRAG everything seems to be clear an logical. But I still have a couple of questions, as help does not seem to provide a lot of info here. 1) As I understand Float Super = Fl...
Dear Experts,1 year ago, I installed Primavera software v 7 (licensed) to my old PC, then my company bought new PC for me since the old PC is not working properly. That is why I have to reinstall the primavera software to my new PC. But unfortunately...
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Hi , I recently updated an actvity as completed , and accordingly have remaining duration and remaining units as zero.Howvever in resource tab , for the same activity i have remaining uint/ hr as 1 eventhough remining units are zero.I was expecting ...
Hello,Are there any standards in construction companies of reporting primavera schedules?As a planning engineer how should he report according to international standards? any format or anything ?
Dear Engineers,My project has not commenced contractually as the Advanced Payment and LC have not been received and opened, however the owner asked us to start constructing the site which was actually started and nearly completed, now I am going to e...
A new White Paper with a succinct definition of the project controls function can be downloaded from: http://www.mosaicprojects.com.au/WhitePapers/WP1093_Project_Controls.pdfAny thoughts or comments welcome (but please note, this is a functional defi...