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Scheduling Challenges in Agile & Distributed Projects

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Our paper looking at the scheduling challenges in agile and distributed projects has been published in the February 2003 edition of PM World Journal: https://pmworldjournal.com/Critical path theory is based on an assumption that to deliver a project ...

Feb 11, 2023

Monte Carlo Simulation Challenges

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Risk simulation is becoming popular but most risk simulation tools and the ways how they are used miss some important functionalities that make the results of this simulation unreliable.I am continuing my posts about 'Monte Carlo Simulation Challenge...

Feb 16, 2023

Total Float take into account different calendars

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Hi friends,Today I did a simple testing take into account 3 activities and different calendars A (5WD) and B (7WD) and I had two different answers but, my question is, considering the CPM schedule we are limited to found a correct critical path accor...

Feb 17, 2023

Client requests a Work Plan

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Hi All,We are developer and our Client requests a "Work Plan" for a site development.Work Plan is too broad, it can either be a management plan, work narrative, or work scedule. Or maybe a budget plan or financing.I dont have problem preparing any of...

Feb 21, 2023

Managing project Portfolio in Spider

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Dear all, I just created this generic post about managing project portfolios, but I want to clarify some details on how Spider is designed to use it, as I think it is well thought through in Spider.In my understanding that it the cycle is like this:1...

Feb 21, 2023

MS Project Survey (ONLY FOR ENGINEERS)

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Hi All, I am a University Masters student studying Civil Engineering. I’m currently in my final year and I’m doing a dissertation on 'The functionality of MS PROJECT'. If you are an ENGINEER and use/have used MS PROJECT, it would massively help if yo...

Feb 24, 2023

MS Project Survey (ONLY FOR ENGINEERS)

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Hi All, I am a University Masters student studying Civil Engineering. I’m currently in my final year and I’m doing a dissertation on 'The functionality of MS PROJECT'. If you are an ENGINEER and use/have used MS PROJECT, it would massively help if yo...

Feb 24, 2023

Resource Assignment table copy and paste in Excel

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Hi,I'm trying to copy the resource assignment table and paste it in Excel.I have divided the labor units by the number of units per period in order to show the number of resources required.Meanwhile, when pasting in Excel, the labor units are pasted ...

Feb 28, 2023

Driving Predecessor/Succesor Filter

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Hello, I am trying to create a filter that would show only Driving Predecessor/Successor or both for an activity. Any suggestions? Best regards, Bogdan

Feb 28, 2023

Would everyone here use a 3/1 data date for February progress?

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Would everyone here use a 3/1 data date for February progress? (aside from some stated date like the 15th etc.) - this way it would match Feb. cost data etc., I always heard that the data date line was like 8am or whatever starting time.  I assume in...

Feb 28, 2023

Productivity Periods and Percentage change of assigmnet

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Hello Vladimir, I saw that Spider has developed the possibility to user productivity periods, which is awsome! These productivity periods are time-based, similar to cost periods. This is great for modeling lower productivity during certain periods li...

Mar 1, 2023