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Mothering Sunday

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Its Mothering SundaySoon to be followed by Smothering Monday when frantic disilusioned parents strive to resist the temptaion to smother the little brats for not getting a mothers day card.Sometimes - perhaps - Herod wasn't all wrong!

Mar 15, 2015

Filtering WBS

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Hi all,By applying filter to the main WBS, is it possible to hide a particular section in the schedule.For eg: I have a WBS " PROVISIONAL SUM" in the schedule and there are different sub-sub work packages as well and the activities are assigned to th...

Mar 15, 2015

Learning Primavera

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Dear planners,I am starting to use primavera at the moment as I have been using Asta Powerproject for a few years. I am thinking to learn primavera just to wider my carreer upportunities in future.I would be very greatful if you can share or email me...

Mar 15, 2015

Prolongation/Disruption Cost

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Hi All,I have the following scenario to discuss.1. In the schedule, through the Path 1 the Employer delay event impact the progress of the Contractor. The Contractor uses heavy machine (high rent cost) to execute the activity. Due to the delay by Emp...

Mar 17, 2015

Exploring the First Amendment: "All Projects are Investments"

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My recent blog article, “Ten Amendments to the Current Practice of Project Management,” has generated a lot of good discussion and positive feedback. I’ve therefore decided to follow it up with articles that explore each of the “amendments” in more d...

Mar 17, 2015

Starting a Career in Planning from the Start

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Hi there,I will try to cut this short as possible:Based in the UK. I am looking for a career change: I have a masters in Urban Planning and a humanities related BA degree. I then worked in marketing, account management, and then set up my own busines...

Mar 18, 2015

Updating percent % via SQL Server

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hi all, I've developped a tool a few years ago, that allowed planner colleagues to enter daily follow-up by scanning barcodes.this tool is still used today, but it's a pain in the ass partly because of the use of excel files to import/export from P6....

Mar 18, 2015

Resource Price/Unit Changes & Baseline Values

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Hi,Hopefully someone here will be able to help.I'm working on a project with a baseline that matches the approved client changes for reporting purposes. We are just about to apply new hourly rates to our labour resources (new rates from effective dat...

Mar 18, 2015

Substantial Completion Date Change

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Currently I'm working on a project where I review a subcontractor's P6 schedule and implement their update when I submit mine to the client. When I import their project into my machine, I hit re-calculate and their Substantial Completion date changes...

Mar 18, 2015

Request for project planning survey

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Hello Everyone, I am studying Quantity Surveying at Coventry University. As part of my final year dissertation, I am carrying out this survey about project planning. It would be very helpful if you could complete this short project planning survey by...

Mar 18, 2015

Inserting Gantt Chart Gridlines in Primavera P6

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We had a call from someone who had become frustrated with trying to change the Primavera P6 Gantt chart gridlines for printout. If you didn’t know, the Gridlines toggle in the print page setup dialog only controls the gridlines of the activity table;...

Mar 20, 2015

Thorny one -How would you model this?

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Contractor A has a large construction project in the middle of nowhere. The logistics route from the nearest available port to the workfront is >1,500km long and in poor condition, and will have to carry something like 200,000 tonnes of plant, equipm...

Mar 20, 2015

What is the best way to compare 2 schedules?

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I want to find out what relationships have been added / deleted from a previous schedule. What is the best (or fastest) way of doing this automatically, without having to review them one by one, visually, manually, etc.?

Mar 21, 2015

Topic for MS (Project Management) Thesis

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Dear PM Professionals!I am in process of selecting thesis for my MS (Project management) Degree. My basic job involve Cost Estimation and Cost Control in construction industry of saudi arabia. I want to make thesis either in Cost Estimation or Cost C...

Mar 21, 2015

Man hours query

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Dear all,Please help me out in couple of queries1) I have budgeted labour, budgeted non labour (equipment hrs) units for each activity in project. when i calculate progress based on budgeted units alone do i have to consider only labour units as this...

Mar 22, 2015