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Scheduling Games for PM summitt

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Hi, we plan to have a session during a PM summit for project managers and we want to play a team game aroung scheduling. Has anybody any idea or experienced something and can share that? Maximum time is 2h.Our current idea:a scheduling process puzzle...

Aug 31, 2017

Calculated time vs duration

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I have for example a safety valve which has to be replaced and calculated the disassembly and assembly time for example to be 2 hours.My colleague scheduler says he always sets the duration for this activity to 10 hours (in this case the length of a ...

Sep 1, 2017

Physical or Work % Complete Roll Up to Summary Task

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I need to roll up physical or work % complete to a summary activity in MS Project.  I am normally a primavera user so I am learning as i go, but I cannot find a good way to do this.  

Sep 1, 2017

Finish Date Calculation Questions

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I have a simple activity that has a completed predecessor and the successor is FS.  My data date is 9/1/17 with 1 day remaining on a standard 5 day calendar with no holidays.  Why is project calulating the finish date as 9/7/17, as opposed to 9/4 or ...

Sep 1, 2017

Expand the whole peoject

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Hi Mike,In p6, there are very good options to expand or collapse the project.In asta,  i need to expand the full programme including all heads and subheads. But the problem is that when I go to Project View, select all heads and subeads and expand th...

Sep 3, 2017

Histogram - Amended

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Hi Mike, In Asta, how to give horizontal scale to Histogram? I got Vertical Scale but I cant see Horizontal scale settings when I right click on Histogram. How can I give the horizontal scale to my Manpower Graph. Please Help .Andy H

Sep 3, 2017

Internal Change Order

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Hello Everyone,Just a topic on Change Order but Internal. Say a situation like, "Its a Engineering Project. The Client has given the Scope of Work and the Contractor has prepared a deliverable list. But at one time Contractor came to know that this d...

Sep 4, 2017

Actual Start Woks before effective date

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Dear All Master Primavera<I am Prastya,  I am is newbie to used primavera P6 in my project and still to learn and explore for this software,I have problem during making the schedule, because in my project now already start work but the owner not stat...

Sep 7, 2017

Updating P6 Schedule

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Hi all, I want the know how to update my P6 schedule based on activities original duration- project actual % complete.  so i can compare it later to the Master baseline, i've tried project (Duration % Complete). but it doesnt seem to be accurate.Note...

Sep 7, 2017

Increase duration when project is late?

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Is it possible in MSP for activity durations to extend when the project runs late?I'm trying to show the Project Management activity extending when the project is delayed, and showing an increase of hours required. I've tried using a Finish - Finish ...

Sep 7, 2017

What Uni course helps with planning and scheduling?

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Hello all, I am considering  going to Uni next year and I would like to know which course  would help with me  further my knowledge of Primavera as I am at a begginers level currently. Also what is the best free online course/info for learning the fu...

Sep 8, 2017

What makes a good project schedule

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Hi All,I'm just wondering what are the key components for a good project plan / schedule?I'm thinking the basics 1st, e.g. Start Milestone, Key Deliverables, good WBS, Resources, etc.Any thoughts? What would you PMO say it's right?Thanks!Sunchana

Sep 8, 2017

Turn around Planning and Scheduling

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Hi everyone,Can you sharing or providing me and somebody else  your experience/information about Refinery/Plant Turnaround/Outage using Premavera P6? I have experience my first turnaround scheduling using P6 but I think I have so many thinks to work ...

Sep 11, 2017

Multiple Calendar Use

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Hi everyone, can you please help me on my problem regarding prdeccessor finish date and successor date is same? Take note iam using more than 3 calendar work days. I appreciate your immediate response.

Sep 11, 2017