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PMI Scheduling Webinar for PDU: How to Compute Critical Path Drag

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I just received the blast email (reprinted below) from PMI's Scheduling Community of Practice announcing the webinar that I will be doing for them on July 10th. It is FREE to all PMI members, but you have to register for it. Last I heard (about two w...

Jun 22, 2013

New Project Manager

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Dear AllI want to share my views and your comments as well. We have a new project manager after a gap of more than one month. The project at status the moment1-      Progress percentage around 53%2-      13 months behind the schedule3-      Project r...

Jun 22, 2013

Resolving conflicts, when working with portfolios

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Dear all,I am checking the work with portfolios.As far as I understand, the mechanism is as followsWhen you add project to portfolio and then consolidate projects, Spider considers all object except activities to be the same in different projects as ...

Jun 23, 2013

Earned Value Labor Units

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Hi Guys,   I have got a problem with Earned Value Labor Units in one of my projects new activities, that Earned Value Labor Units is not getting calculated according to activity %. Please suggest the possible reason, to fix this error.   Regards, Abi...

Jun 24, 2013

Budgeted Labour Cost in Assignments - Average Only?

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We have different labour rates in different financial years and we need to extract accurate time-phased costs from P6 (Release 7 SP4). The labour rates per financial year have been setup against the resource for the applicable time period. When we vi...

Jun 24, 2013

P6 - Estimate To Complete

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Hello I am trying to use the Estimate to complete (ETC) as my Labor Units for my resource loading histograms.  However, when I go into my reports I am unable to create a report using ETC (only allows me to pick Remaining Units).    Any suggestions? K

Jun 24, 2013

Different Display of Project End Dates when opening same file

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Hi all,I am presently faced with the following issue:The supplier has submitted a MSP file to both me and another planner. However, when we open the file, both of us see different Project completion dates. Both our settings and file source being the ...

Jun 26, 2013

Equivalent to Wbs summary in Ms project

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Hi folks is the there any equivalent to wbs summary (of primavera p6 ) in Ms Project 2007 ? if yes , how to  to do it ? Regards Kamel

Jun 26, 2013

Equivalent to Wbs sumary in Ms project

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Hi folksis the there any equivalent to wbs summary (of primavera p6 ) in Ms Project 2007 ?if yes , how to  to do it ?RegardsKamel

Jun 26, 2013

Incorporating A new Time Schedule to your old one

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I have this problem at work: I have my time schedule which is updated up to data date, now a new area is going to be added to project scope which the engineering and construction activities have been started 2 months before. now thay ask me to prepar...

Jun 26, 2013

Predecessor and Successor

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Dear Sirs,For P6, say Task A is the predecessor as Task B and Task C is the successor for Task B.If I delete Task B, can the linking from Task A-Task B become Task A to Task C?Thank you

Jun 27, 2013

Resources Assignment

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for a certain activity, I assigned 2 different resources 'labor' categories (Skilled, unskilled Electritions). when I updated my CCS and inserted an actual start date and a 90% duration completion for that activity, it showed actual hours only for th...

Jun 27, 2013

Printing Gantt Chart Legend

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I know this may be a dumb question,But how can I print the Gantt Chart legend so that people used to read MS project knows what each bar is talking about? Saludos cordiales, -Carlos

Jun 28, 2013

Engineer Not Responds EoT Claim Until the Revised Finish Date

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Dear All1-      The Revised Finish date is 02-02-YYYY2-      An EoT claim submitted by the contractor on 01-01-YYYY3-      Engineer’s letter to submit Recovery Program (FIDIC 1999) clause 8.3 & 8.6 on 03-01-YYYY (after the submission of EoT and 30 da...

Jun 29, 2013

Status of Finish Date

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Dear All1-      Once the Contractor has submitted an Interim EoT Claim2-      The Engineer has accepted that to review3-      Responds to the contractor that the claim is being reviewedThe contractual / revised finish date is considered withhold / nu...

Jun 29, 2013

replace resources

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Dear AllI have inherited a P7 schedule plan with 2 different resources (one Material and one labor) in common with another project. As for enterprise’s policies I need to separate the resources from other project. (both resources have actuals)I made ...

Jun 29, 2013

daily target

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Dear All Due to project delay the client have prepare their own schedule as per the remaining work divided to duration of 14 weeks. therefore client come out the daily target however I have concern on the other activity if the activity 1 example cann...

Jun 30, 2013