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Program planning setup

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Dear forum members,I recently got assigned the task of program management for one of our business sectors.What is required of me is firstly to have a complete overview of what was done, when and where. And this is also where I am stuck. It is safe to...

Jan 6, 2014

Schedule % Complete Dieffrences

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Dear P6 experts,Acttualy, our consultant dont get the same schedule % complete on his programme,We took an example for one WBS level, activities have the same activity % complete, same expenses, but we don't get the same schedule % complete on the WB...

Jan 6, 2014

Leveling resources: "Activities that cannot be leveled". Why

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Hi. I'm doing a feasability analysis for an early fase project. I'm trying to build different scenarios with respects to resources and time. I have around 100 activites. I've set Original Duration and Budgeted Labour units. When i use Shift+F9 i stil...

Jan 6, 2014

Driving Predecessor(s) Report

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Is there a report in P6 that will identify which predecessors are driving the successor activities?  Can't seem to find it in the "built in" reports.

Jan 6, 2014

Resource Usage Spreadsheet

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Hi everyone, My Resource Usage Spreadsheet is not editable, it inactive! The schedule havent updated yet, even i have got this issue for a new created schedule, any advise is appreciated.   Nikan.

Jan 7, 2014

ask for some books

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Hi Actually,I found these books very practical and impressive, but in my country i can not reach them. If any body have these please send them to my email address below:   Links:   Thank you for your concideration  

Jan 7, 2014

Renaming/Changing Resource ID

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Hi All, I am trying to find a faster way to change/rename exsisting resource id's (about 500). I have tried import/export but that does not seem to change the resource id. And it seems that this cannot be done by global change either. Any assitance w...

Jan 7, 2014

User-defined Fields

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Hi,A question about user-defined fields.I've created a number of UDF's, some of them being of the Integer or Number type.How do I prevent these types from summarizing on parent/WBS-level above, e.g. if writing "2" for one activity and "7" for another...

Jan 7, 2014

PMSDK-Resource Baseline Information

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Hi All, Anyone knows if there is any way to call resource "baseline" information (like baseline budget and baseline time distributed data) by PMSDK? Regards,manochehr 

Jan 8, 2014

Baseline

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Hi everyone! What happens when you take a snapshot (baseline) of current update but the dates differ when you assign it as the primary baseline. The dates are different when you add BL1 start and finish column for comparison. Has anyone experienced t...

Jan 8, 2014

missing data while exporting-importing

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Dear all,During either the export or import process from P6 in xer file, a substantial amount of the resources data (MHRS) is lost.That happens even when I reimport the file to my database.When I copy – paste the schedule everything is ok. I assume t...

Jan 8, 2014

The finish date of my project is off by a few days.

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Hello, Im doing a schedule for school where a project started on June 25, 2012. The project duration is 584 calendar days from the start date, which the finish date will be January 29, 2014.  I created a new calendar to represent "calendar days" mean...

Jan 9, 2014

Question on Lag

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What is the implication of using both positive and nagative lags on a programme and what are the benefits?

Jan 9, 2014

Use Performance factor to calculate Hours to Spread in Histogram

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Hello,I am trying to incorporate a productivity factor to my hours to finish the project to show an accurate spread of hours/resources needed in Histograms.  However i don't want to change my remaining to earn hours (for S-Curves).  Ideally i would l...

Jan 9, 2014

Schedule Logic

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All,I am reviewing a P6 schedule submitted by a Subcontractor, the schedule has;6,793 total activities which includes;512 date constraints463 activities without predecessors126 activities without successors1 activity on the Longest PathIn the Contrac...

Jan 10, 2014

Two Ambitious Goals for Your PMO in 2014

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At Ten Six, we see a couple of themes and goals for this year which include raising the strategic profile of the PMO and improving its approach to organizational skill development. Here we take a look at both of these goals. http://ow.ly/sspOI

Jan 10, 2014

Advance Payment

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I have a Client and a Contractor both difficult to manage both don't adhere too much to the contract clauses due to some  kind of friendship . My problem is the advance payment , the contractor included it  on his baseline schedule  on the critical p...

Jan 10, 2014