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Scheduling Core Papers Updated

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We’ve been working on a series of books: – Easy EVM is published: See more on the book – Easy CPM is a work in progress, publication later this year – Easy SHM will follow in 2022.As part of the development of Easy CPM as course-in-a-book which is de...

Nov 20, 2021

Davis Bacon Rates - what if multiple county project?

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Davis Bacon Rates - what if multiple county project?  What if you are on a long rail project that goes through 3 counties?  The Bacon-Davis rate is different in different counties.  Do you pay the highest?  Do you pay the same person doing the same w...

Nov 21, 2021

Prochain MSP add on

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Hi Everyone, Looking for some advice on using Prochain, the MSP Add On for Critical Chain Project Management. I've been using it for a few months now, and feel it is very clunky, slow and extremely frustrating to use. Any advice on how to make the us...

Nov 22, 2021

Non cumulative Material Leveling

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Hi my friends,I would like to discuss some cases that I faced today. I'm leveling material from Spider but, I think that algorithm always considers that if you do not use the material in each period the same material goes to another period for use. T...

Nov 29, 2021

DD+1m = ?

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Hi All, How do I prove, or find out, what date is actually reported in the formula DD+1m? Lets say my Data Date is 25th November 2021 00:00 will DD+1m return 25th December 2021 00:00 or will it count how many days in the month of November or December...

Dec 13, 2021

Reporting from many projects from the EPS

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Hello,I'm trying to produce reports for a group of unrelated schedules. I am using P6 Pro v20. Example provide a list of project names, start date and end date and % complete of all projects in the EPS by project type. Maybe pick out a few milestones...

Dec 13, 2021

Issue with future stored period performance - one for the tech heads!

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Hi All, We have been asked to change our financial periods for 2022 in P6 V17.12, when we try and do this we get an error saying that some actuals have been stored in these periods, this has obviously been done in error.I have scanned the projects an...

Dec 14, 2021

Reason of Delay

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In order to figure it out what is delaying an activity links and resource dependencies are not enough when leveling materials and financial resources, it is the Reason of delay field what gives me this information. There are several places where you ...

Dec 17, 2021

Schedule date calcs in Excel

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So to calc a completion date in excel that includes the NTP date itself is @sum((A1+A2)-1) because excel does not count the NTP date in that formula.  With a A1 being the NTP date and A2 being that Calendar Days.  Are there any other, or different fo...

Jan 6, 2022

Advise - Estimating Down Time

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Hi, I have seen a couple of spreashsheets created that estimated days /month or days/activity that a project is likley to lose from different weather conditions such as below.or Both of these do a job but I am wanting to create something that has a b...

Jan 7, 2022

Imported Project Without Baseline

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Hi,I have imported a file without its baseline. But I see baseline start/finishes dates are different than project start/finish dates. I checked there is no assigned baseline. I expect if there is no baseline assigned to the project then baseline dat...

Oct 6, 2020

Customising different column headers for different projects

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I am managing two different projects for different clients in P6 that require the schedules to be published every week.  The clients require different column headers and so far I have had to keep changing the headers when I go to publish each project...

Oct 7, 2020

CCT Exam - recommendations

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Hi everyone, I am hoping to further advance my career in PC, and was wondering if anyone taken the CCT (certified cost technician exam), and if it helped with their career? Was the exam difficult and heavily math oriented (one of the study text books...

Oct 7, 2020

Stand alone cost tools - looking for suggestions

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Always been in scheduling.  Been in and out of cost, getting back into cost.  There have got to be better tools out there than just excel - what are better ones for cost?  For example, I don't want a "whole" system like procore because already using ...

Oct 9, 2020

Actual Costs in P6 - EV Nirvana??

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After a number of years working in Project Controls, and several organisations, I can get my head around Planning and Resources but what i see constant in-fighting, division and confusion around is just how Actual Costs and how actual costs are align...

Oct 9, 2020