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Duration,Work Unit and Resource equation

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Hi to allWould you please advise how activity duration,work unit and resource are equated in MS Project,Primaver and Spider?RegardsShahul

Feb 17, 2011

Problem when Convert From P3 To P6

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 Good morning planners  I faced problem when i make convert from p3 to p6, the problem is, there is Hammock activity have Succ & Pred relationship  when I convert it to P6 the pred relationship disappear !!!  how can I solve this problem please advis...

Feb 17, 2011

Delay Period Representation

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HiIn a schedule with 2 calendars (one with 6 days as working period and another with 7 days are working period ) assignment,on determination of delay period after applying TIA (Time Impact Analysis ) method,the resulting delay period should be mentio...

Feb 17, 2011

Nokia-Microsoft connections unlikely to disrupt mobile sector

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Nokia and Microsoft have entered a smartphone development arrangement, the 2 businesses announced last week. Nokia said it will phase out its Symbian OS. Symbian, which has been losing market share to Android can be exchanged by Microsoft's Windows P...

Feb 17, 2011

Variance

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Hi,Need helpProblem:When I have frozen the baseline for the project and release all the constraints, I want to be able to see the variance between my finish milestone vs. finish baseline milestone.The Finish variance in MSP show a negative number whe...

Feb 17, 2011

Concurrent User on a P6 Database

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I created a project on a server database.  Everytime I am scheduling it, its showing me a message first that says "Other users currently have the project open as well.  Performing this process may overwrite...".Is there somewhere in the P6 program th...

Feb 17, 2011

Tracking Critical Path

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Hi all, This is my first post on Planning Planet so I'd like to introduce myself. I'm working on a multi high-rise project in Brisbane, QLD, Australia and although I have a few projects under my belt, this is my first job as Project Planner. We use P...

Feb 18, 2011

Tracking Critical Path

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Hi all, This is my first post on Planning Planet so I'd like to introduce myself. I'm working on a multi high-rise project in Brisbane, QLD, Australia and although I have a few projects under my belt, this is my first job as Project Planner. We use P...

Feb 18, 2011

WBS

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Hello all, I have a problem regarding WBS.. If 1000 activity i can export from excell sheet..how about WBS? Simple WBS can be create directly from P6 WBS section, but how about to create 1000 list of WBS?.. Example: 1 A     1.1 A1   1.2 A2   until   ...

Feb 18, 2011

About P6

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Hi! Friends, i am working as planner from last 10years- My name is Sridhar. Guies i want to learn P6, all these years i am useing P3 and i am more conversent with P3. i got trannied in P6, but it is on fast rack process nearly one and year back, and ...

Feb 18, 2011

What is the need to develop planning schedule for power plant (550

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Hi friends          I am in steel plant engineering and want to changeove to power plant engineering.Can any one give idea from where i have to start for power plant planning. what are basic rule for planning for power plant ? what are the major acti...

Feb 18, 2011

quantities Units Showing in profile

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Dear All, If Quantities are loaded in base line prepared by P6 how to show these quantities enclosed with their units ( like m3, m2,ton ) not in hours or days via  profile?   Thanks

Mar 9, 2011

P6V7 levels resource actual units

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Hello planners, on Activity A, Original Duration 5 days, Resource 1 is working 8 hour/day Activity Actual Start is Monday and Actual Duration 2 days Update Progress on Tuesday night shows Resource 1 Actual Units = 16h, 8 on Monday and 8 on Tuesday On...

Mar 9, 2011

25% PFS and 10% BFS Schedule templates

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I was wondering if there is anybody out there that has got standard templates for a 25% Pre-Feasibility Study and a 10% Bankable Feasibility Study? We are setting up a new project in South Africa and I need to train a junior Planner but do not have a...

Mar 10, 2011

Usage of SDK

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Dear All, Please guide me on this Topic. I have still not used SDK feature for any of my projects till now. but i see that there may be many benefits of having installed it,Which i am not aware.

Mar 10, 2011

Extension of Time Documents

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Dear Friends I am Working on a Palace Project , our project end date was 31 mar 2011 , we submit several impacted schedule whenever we recieve changes and new design , as per our impacted schedule the end date was in novemeber 2011 for the only the r...

Mar 10, 2011

Estimate Weightage not updating

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Dear All, can anybody please address this issue... I had to assign the est weights to all the activites so i exported the project with all the activites along with the est weight column.I assigned the est weights to all the activities as required and...

Mar 10, 2011