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Allow Long Lag or Use Soft Constraints - Question

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I represent a client that specifically requires limited use of lag if used at all. I have a situation where the contractor chose to delay a series of activates to improve the schedule. The schedule includes several buildings each could be considered ...

Jan 30, 2018

Is it worth to keep as less as possible tasks on a Kanban board?

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Hi All! I would like to know your opinions about the following workflow:1. planning with user story mapping, slicing out releases and sprints2. pushing tasks release by release or sprint by sprint to a Kanban board. Is it worth? according to this blo...

Jan 31, 2018

Help with External links

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Afternoon all, I have inherited a project which has links to multiple external projects within the same database.  Given that on the relationship tab of the activity details I can see the project ID the link comes from but i can't find a report that ...

Jan 31, 2018

Primavera Baseline used bu Acumen Fuse

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Hi, i'm struggling to undertsnad what baseline Acumen Fuse uses when we export from Primavera. I assumed it will be PROJECT BASELINE but even leaving that field set as Current Project it seems to be picking up a date (that isnt the current finish dat...

Jan 31, 2018

Constraints and lags together

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Hi I have an urgent problem as I am also new using this tool. I am working on a project and I hit myself of a problem.I have 3 milestones : MIL10, MIL11 and MIL12. they are linked sequentially and they also have a "finish on" constraint. But the pred...

Feb 1, 2018

P6 Activities with Steps Name / Status Export

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Hi I would like to export activities with steps including step names and status of steps in to excel spreadsheet. While Actiivty steps export provides infor about steps completed, in progress, etc. I am looking more on the lines of exporting activiti...

Feb 2, 2018

Team Management Application

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Hi all,Any recommendations for a good team management software/application? It must include team management and task delegation and progress features?apprciated your helpmuataz

Feb 3, 2018

Baseline Schedule Narrative

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Dear All,I need a compreshensive narrative report for the baseline schedule, which inlude detailed understanding for anyone involved in the project. Can anyone please share any sample format/templates for the report. ThanksMuhammad Zahidzahidmallick1...

Feb 4, 2018

What characterizes a winning project proposal ?

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People share ideas and projects on a daily basis. However, most of them vanish because these people do not have the resources to pursue those ideas or projects.  In today's connected world, we have alternatives on how to attain funds. The first step ...

Feb 4, 2018

Negative Schedule Variance

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Hi,Is a negative schedule variance indicates that the project will not finish on time?In my opinion NO. because, as of the reporting period, critical items planned values may be achieved and keeping the completion date on time. meantime few non criti...

Feb 5, 2018

Possession calender's without possession calender's

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Hi Due to policy, our contractor can not create custom calenders. However, due to the nature of the worksite (railway), activities can only occur on certain days. So my question is. How do you create a programme with correct total float. As using a 7...

Feb 5, 2018

Importing XLS Causing Resource Assignment Duplication

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I'm exporting resource assignments from P6 to Excel, updating budgeted units, actual units, and at completion units, then importing and Excel sheet into P6. Once the import is complete, I noticed that the resource has been updated based on my import,...

Feb 5, 2018

How to assign resources to part of a tasks

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Hi,Does anyone know how to assign a resource for a period in the middle of a task?I have a number of tasks that are say 10 weeks long, however I would like to assign different resources to the first 4 weeks the middle 2 weeks and the last 6 weeks but...

Feb 6, 2018

Standalone DB backup solution question

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EveningJust thought I'd better check - fairly new to P6 with a basic setup so I've simply enabled Windows' File History to backup the PPMDBSQLite.db to an external HDD on an hourly basis, thinking if there were any irretrievable mistakes, I could the...

Feb 6, 2018

Forensic claim analyst

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Dear All,I'm so pleased to write here, as recommended by my ex. manager to discuss here, I really look forward to hear your advice.In brief, I'm a planning Engineer, instructor of PMP & Primavera, and I already have worked partially within constructi...

Feb 7, 2018

How to Recover a Primavera P6 Password

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I've just written about two options on how to recover a Primavera P6 password. I'm not sure my content is welcome here in the forums, so let me know if this is a subject that you're interested in this.

Feb 7, 2018

Copy Paste Function Not Working In P6

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Good  morning,I am struggling with Primavera to Copy Paste a schedule. When I select paste once schedule is copied, I do not have the option to select Summary Data, when I then select ok I recieve an error that reads Item not found and it gives me an...

Feb 10, 2018