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Formulas and Modifiers

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Hello Vladimir,For some time I have been trying to figure out how to use modifiers in formulas but I am at a loss regarding their use. I manage to create formulas using modifiers but it's more of a trial and error process.I found it useful to be able...

Jun 27, 2019

How to calculate project Man hours and split weekly

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Dear all, Please help me if any one can,I calculated man hour as below described Please correct if I am wrong,I used to calculate on thumb rule, For example if the project cost 100.I considered 15% as Company over head,so 100-15=85 aed In which 85 is...

Jun 27, 2019

How to calculate project Man hours and split weekly

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Dear all, Please help me if any one can,I calculated man hour as below described Please correct if I am wrong,I used to calculate on thumb rule, For example if the project cost 100.I considered 15% as Company over head,so 100-15=85 aed In which 85 is...

Jun 27, 2019

how to claim the PC rates item

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Now we have one building with FIDIC contract and we have one PC item which the qty is changed compared with the final drawing and tender drawing, my query have two: one is that can  the contractor cliam the different qty and the second is can contrat...

Jun 28, 2019

Cleaning Junk Risk Types form xer files

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A few months ago it was pointed out that a lot of garbage was being imported into the P6 database via xer files similar to the way that POBS tables were causing the database to grow very large in size unnecessarily. If you look under Admin then Admin...

Jun 28, 2019

Spurious RISKTYPE Database Contamination

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Hi allWe have recently been experiencing a large number of completely spurious RISKTYPE categories being passed around between ourselves and the organisations that we regularly exchange programmes with.The RISKTYPE data seems totally spurious, with r...

Jun 28, 2019

Rail Sample programme

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I am starting a new job in the rail sector in the UK and was wondering if anyone had any example programmes which i can look at to get familiar to terminology used etc Thanks in advanceLiam

Jun 28, 2019

General format note in P6

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 Isn't better to use “Start” and “Finish” column headings instead of “Early Start” and “Early Finish” when also using “Late Start” and “Later Finish” columns along with float.  The reason is because the Start will give you an actual right? with an A ...

Nov 29, 2022

Job Opportunities in Australia (if you can get there)

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The Australian Institute of Project Management’s report on ‘The state of project management in Australia 2022’ shows some worrying trends. The survey respondents said:48% of their projects were delivered with stakeholder satisfaction most of the time...

Dec 3, 2022

DCMA 14 Filter

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Hi everyone, Has anyone ever written formula for " DCMA 14"?  If yes, can you share it please.

Dec 12, 2022

Converting Activity Codes to WBS

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Hello, by chance can anyone help me convert Activity Codes to WBS?any existing software to use?Thanks Regards Efren

Dec 14, 2022

Elapsed Duration

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When displaying Elapsed Duration in a column can it be displayed without the "e" ? Thank you

Dec 14, 2022

Critical Path issue

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Hi everyone, in one of the projects this issue came up and we have two critical activities at the same time and the more important issue is the following critical activities are followed by the shorter one.How is that even possible? What do I need to...

Dec 14, 2022

How to edit gray boxes in Resource Usage Spreadsheet

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Hi All,I am trying to distribute hours using resource usage spreadsheet. some of the boxes have turned gray and i can not edit them.Activities haven't startedactual hours are 0budgeted hours = remaining hoursRefer to activity "Insert seismic bracing"...

Dec 16, 2022

CPM Schedules have limited use in horizontally distributed projects!

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Our recently uploaded presentation ‘Scheduling Challenges in Horizontally Distributed Projects’ looks at the challenges of scheduling, managing, and claiming delays in, horizontally distributed projects. The presentation linked below is the start of ...

Dec 17, 2022