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Three types of project sponsors

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3 types of sponsorsA person acting in the role of the sponsor may take different approaches to fulfilling his role and present different attitudes and behaviours. The table below will help you determine what type of sponsor you are and take appropria...

Nov 14, 2017

How do I Become a Projects/Cost Engineer? I am a Fresh Graduate

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I am a fresh graduate of Petroleum Engineering from Nigeria. I however desire a career path in Projects/Cost Engineering. All I have is the desire, I don't have the requisite knowledge of what to do and what not to do. Hence, I am in search of answer...

Nov 15, 2017

Why use start instead of early start when filtering

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In Primavera, they told me that using Start criteria instead of Early start (and then using data date range) is preferred. Why do we not use Early start within a range but not Start?

Nov 15, 2017

Add Predecessor to Multiple Tasks

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Hi all, is there a way to add a single predecessor to multiple tasks? Surely I don't have to go through and add it one by one??!!

Nov 16, 2017

VBA - Deleting Tasks (criteria based)

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Hi all, I'm looking for some help using VBA to delete rows in an MSP I own. There aretasks in my plan labelled as either "C" or "I" (as in Client or Internal) using a custom "text23" column. I'm currently having to manually delete, line by line those...

Aug 2, 2017

Calculate WBS Summary & LOE Dates WITHOUT ReScheduling

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HiI have a need to add WBS Summary & LOE activities into a group of contractors' programmes to aide with reporting.However, in order for these new activities to correctly take on the Start & Finish dates, it appears that I must reschedule the program...

Aug 3, 2017

How can Project Managers benefit from PrimaveraReader?

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[[wysiwyg_imageupload:4917:]]Project and program managers are the ones leading the projects and effectively managing resources, people and communication throughout the whole project life cycle.Being a Project Manager doesn’t require creating the sche...

Aug 3, 2017

Store Period Performance

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Dear All, I have a schedule in Primavera P6 that which the Periods were never stored. We update this schedule on a weekly basis, and now we are in week 135. We are having issues with some stakeholders. The progress curve, which uses de P6 data, has v...

Aug 3, 2017

EPS not showing correctly for new user

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Hi,I have certain admin rights where I can create / edit the EPS. One of my schedulers can only see the EPS nodes that she has her projects under. She has 3 nodes, however, they are not showing in the same order as in the EPS structure. Is this somet...

Aug 4, 2017

Resource assignment fields grayed out - Primavera P6 16.2

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Hi guys, this is my first post here.I am using Primavera P6 16.2 for my MSc thesis. Current problem that I have is that I cannot assign material resource for specific day of the activity, the fields are gray instead of white, as in few YouTube videos...

Aug 6, 2017

Looking for Information regarding planning jobs/career in Singapore

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Hello Members...I am a Primavera/MS Project planner based in Australia with about 12 years of construction and IT planning experience. Due to certain family issues, I am looking at moving base to Singapore where I will be considered as a local for jo...

Aug 7, 2017

Waterfall vs Agile - time for delivery pros to take the high ground.

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I've been increasingly grumpy lately about the number of people who are taking polarized views of delivery frameworks and insisting that 'their' way is the only true north. Whilst it is great to see so much passion about delivery approaches, it is im...

Aug 7, 2017

Planning Swith to freelance work.

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This is for all UK based planners who are thinkng about going freelance but do not want to jump off the cliff of paid employment - just yet.There is a way that will let you dip your toe in the freelance pond to see if it suits you - working for Contr...

Aug 7, 2017

Resource Usage Profile problem

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Hello All,I have problem that budget and actual units before data date are not shown in the resource usage profile and spreadsheet any solution?

Aug 8, 2017

Critical Path

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Any expert, please help me out. What is the best way to get only one critical path in P6 rather than getting 2 critical paths in the same programme ?Cheers,Andy

Aug 8, 2017

Primavera P6 R15.1 Price/unit

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Hi I am new in Primavera P6 version R15.1When I was assiging cost to resources that I created, I couldn't find the Price/Unit column to assign the cost in, I just found Price/Unit4 and Price/Unit5 which they didn't work in further steps in the progra...

Aug 9, 2017

Revised Program in P6

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Hi Everyone.I'm currently working on a Revised Program from the last update (in P6), and I've already adjusted and Corrected all dates and Relationships and even I've used Global Change to make Planned % Complete and Actual Percentage complete equal,...

Aug 9, 2017