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Retreiving a baseline, export it to P6

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i am a P6 user using MS projects and need help to export a baseline. i hope some planner out there will help as i rarely use the software.I have been given a MS project file which has under it a baseline project and labled planned programme.i have ex...

Sep 16, 2014

PRIMAVERA Managing Percent Complete

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Hi I have a project which I split into subprojects. Example 2 project are activity type projects and are just different disciplines but actually make up one project schedule. The 3rd project is a milestone schedule linked to the 2 activity schedules....

Sep 16, 2014

PRIMAVERA Managing Percent Complete

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Hi I have a project which I split into subprojects. Example 2 project are activity type projects and are just different disciplines but actually make up one project schedule. The 3rd project is a milestone schedule linked to the 2 activity schedules....

Sep 16, 2014

Cost Control

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What are the methodologies a planner can put in a project to control cost ? Monitoring the budjet, comparison of actual vs estimate is a different story. Any other project control techniques ??

Sep 16, 2014

Oracle P6 SDK vs API

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In layman's terms, what is the difference between the P6 SDK and API?

Sep 16, 2014

Oracle P6 SDK vs API

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In layman's terms, what is the difference between the P6 SDK and API?

Sep 16, 2014

Recurring tasks - linking them.

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Yes, it's me again!I have a number of recurring tasks and I would like to link them so that theyre automatically cheduled within the day.What it is, i have to programme in one of our guys (lets call him Dave) who goes to seven buildings, every friday...

Sep 17, 2014

Project level coding, views lost on copying project

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using P6.7, the issue is this; We keep project level coding discipline because we are too big a team working on too many diverse projects to all be using global codes. Plus the bulk of our coding comes out of a prep system that overlaps its coding be...

Sep 17, 2014

Primavera Templates

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Can someone guide me through the process of creating project templates in P6 8.3.2. I know the older version used to have methodology management but its gone in this version. I am only familiar with methodology management but I have never used it. My...

Sep 17, 2014

Earned value

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Dears,How can use earned value to compare the project progress reporting

Sep 18, 2014

Earned value method

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Dears,How can use earned value to compare the project progress reporting

Sep 18, 2014

Watching the Watchmen

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Good morningwe are developing preperation plans (planning to plan) for our shut downs and turnarounds. part of this process is developing objective KPIs for each deliverable (at least for the big ones that need more than 2 reporting cycles to produce...

Sep 18, 2014

Resource and Cost Loading

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Hi All,I am new in Primavera P6 however i am now experience in Preparing/updating schedules in P6 w/o resource and cost loading. Now i am in next step to learn these as well.Can anybody help to share the stuff/material for easy learning for resource ...

Apr 30, 2015

"Whaddya Do When the Critical Path Changes?"

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I just posted a new article “Whaddya Do When the Critical Path Changes?” on my blog. The article shows how a delay during project execution that changes the critical path requires new analysis of the value, drag, and true cost of the new critical pat...

May 2, 2015

Project Controls Best Practices- Online survey

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Dear Friends and Colleagues I would highly appreciate if you could complete this online survey that I am conducting for my Master's degree. The topic is about the best Project controls practices and its influences on projects. The survey will take le...

May 2, 2015

Disable de Sirens -- But Put Out de Critical Path Fires, Too!

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I just posted a new article “Disable de Sirens – But Put Out de Critical Path Fires, Too!” on my blog. This article is in explanation to some readers who felt that some of my comments in my previous article (“Whaddya Do When the Critical Path Changes...

May 4, 2015