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5 Annual Objectives for PMO Leaders

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You might be wondering why we’re focusing on annual objectives right now, when typically you’ll see articles about goal setting at the start of the year. It’s because now is a great time to be reflecting on objectives and making sure that you and the...

Sep 23, 2016

Resource Distribution Doesn't Work Correctl, Any Idea?

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Hello,I was trying to check an activity's resource distribution from Resource Assignments tab but eventually I realised that eventhough I increased the remaining time of that activity, the distribution of resource doesn't change. It only shows exact ...

Sep 24, 2016

CAREER ADVICE

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HELLO EVERYONE, I have recently comleted B.TECH IN INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERING in India. Would it be wise to start off  my career as Planning engineer?? Do planning engineers in instrumentation field have good scope for career advancement?

Sep 24, 2016

Increased Manhours when Importing from MSP to P6

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When I import a plan from MSP to P6, the work shown in budgeted labour units increases by approximately 1500hrs. I've tried changing the importing settings as well as the calculation settings on the project but it doesn't seem to make any difference....

Sep 27, 2016

Airport Construction schedule

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Hi All,  who can share with us basic things to consider we you plan for Airport construction and if possible share typical schedule shows major activities  thanks 

Sep 28, 2016

Formula Help - Omit summary tasks from formula?

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Hello, The below formula will give a red cross at a task which have an actual%complete less than the planned%complete, and a tick in other cases. switch(PlannedPercentComplete(CB,na)>PercentComplete,high,PlannedPercentComplete(CB,na)<=PercentComplete...

Sep 28, 2016

Baseline Resources - reports

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Good afternoon all, I've been asked if I can generate a report from P6 to show our current plan resource amount vs our baseline resource amount. i.e. when we baselined a job we had for example 20 tons of steel used, as the project has progressed this...

Sep 28, 2016

Baseline Resources - reports

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Good afternoon all, I've been asked if I can generate a report from P6 to show our current plan resource amount vs our baseline resource amount. i.e. when we baselined a job we had for example 20 tons of steel used, as the project has progressed this...

Sep 28, 2016

Total Budget

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Hi everyone,I'm trying to make a simple report showing the budget for each WBS.Is there any way to show a total for everything?

Sep 29, 2016

Baseline Critical Path

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Hi MSapiens/Planners,I'm working on an MS Project file for quite sometime. It has got a baseline that was made long ago. Now, i want to see the critical path in that baseline. Can someone suggest me on sorting this out, using either custom filters or...

Sep 29, 2016

How long would it take to complete PMP certification?

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Now, I have searched a lot of communities and have read a lot of blogposts about the time it would take to complete my PMP certification, but they all quite vary from each other. So, I would like to know if anyone of you has completed PMP certificati...

Sep 29, 2016

Introduction

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Hello Everyone,   I am new here in this forum.

Sep 30, 2016

Error when updating Remaining Units / Time

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Hello, I'm trying to update the Remaining Units/Time in the Resource Activities in my schedule. I have done an export, update the file and when I import I get the following message:Error: Cannot assign the same Resource: RSRC: xxx to TASK ActivityID:...

Sep 30, 2016

how to calculate the peak consuption of concrete with ms project

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Dear All,I'm going to create a matirial resource concrete with standar rate  1/hr and assign for each concrete activities in the gant chart the  concrete resourse then in ihe unit I assign the quantity in cubic meter.  Afetr filter for concrete and s...

Sep 30, 2016

vulgar name calling

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Recently within a LinkedIn discussion one of the members of the GPC used the forum as to call others who do not agree with the guild as a d**khead.  This is wrong and there shall be some minimum standards on how members of the guild behave, we can di...

Oct 3, 2016

Excel Timeline - with milestones

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Hi All;I'm struggling to work this out, what i need to produce in Excel, is a timeline for deliverables, in this case we have designs.For each deliverable (1 row in excel) i have 4 dates (columns), Baseline Design Issue, Current Design Issue, Baselin...

Oct 3, 2016

Lags and type of duration format

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Hi All,Please can you advise on the following-My programme activities are showing incosistent time units on my lags and slope. The activities are showing a mixture of seconds, minutes, hours and days on my activities.Is there a way i can select a con...

Oct 3, 2016