Is it ok to rise claims for long lead items or equipments that their long time procurement caused a delay in the project ? Is the Client fault to specifiy such items that aren't available in the local market ? or the contractor's fault for not orderi...
Folks, wishing you all season's greetings, happy holidays and a prosperous 2013 to come. My question is the following: - Moving from Stand Alone installs of P6 v7 to a Network DB, what are your recommendations to be cost effective or efficient? - Cou...
Hai all If anyone have manpower & equipment productivity list of Road & Pipeline works, Please mail to my id use private message service Regards Mani
Vladimir, Rafael,I am looking now at phases and I have the following few questions:Question 1I could not find any function similar to “Indent” or “Outdent”, available in MSP or Asta. I only found “Convert to Phase”. Hence the only way I found to Ind...
Dear all,My project is reaching 72.20% this week(data date 21-Dec-2012). and our contract project Mechanical Completion date is 30-Apr-2013. now, we are ahead of schedule(bl Cum 65.53%). however, there are some problems:for many Procurement items, Pr...
Hello,First of all I have to say I have little experience working with Spider Project. I have been trying to create scripts in order to perform complex tasks faster when I hit a dead end trying to create a script for risk analysis. The script looks l...
I have 142 projects in my T&D Program! I need to import a global code change to identify seperate engineering packages. Currently all my P&C packages have one code. I have an excell to import that has an "alpha" character to split my P&C into 3 catag...
Hi all, Somebody would know how to insert costs in activities in Vico Control 2009? Best Regards,Be BbbesBJosé Otávio.
Hello all,I have been using Project Scheduler (aka Project Scheduler Network in France because PS here is the acronym for "Parti Socialiste") since 1991.My opinion is that Project Scheduler always was far ahead of Microsoft Project; when the editor S...
Hi All,I am new to this forum and am in need of advice specially if we have Australians here.I have been in Australia in for quite some time now. Before that I have around 1 year of experience working as a junior scheduler in India. I am looking to b...
Dear all,I have been using MS Project for a while and now have allocated some time to look at other programs. As a part of this investigation I compared resource leveling algorithms of them (I am one of those, who believe, that resource leveling is v...
Dear All,Could you please guide me sequence of construction progress calculation in EPC contractor and what is the factor we need to consider while calculating the construction progress.Please reply me [email protected]
Dear all,In the parallel thread I published results of resource a leveling engine comparison, which I did on Microsoft Project, Primavera, Asta Powerproject, and Spider Project. However some people pointed out that my test results may be a bit “color...
Dear Frnds,i am trying to loading cost for the activities in P6 program by importing cost loaded in excel file but it is not getting loaded.Could some1 please help me by listing out the sequence of operations required or what would be problem in load...
Dear Primavera users,Can Anyone advise me on how to show weekly totals (durations) in P6?This was possible in P3 - but am struggling in P6I need a number for total programme days per week - displayed at the bottom of the screen.Hope someone can help ...
Wishing all Planners over the globe happy and prosperous new year. Heartily thanks to each and every one for helping in each stage of planning career.Have a happy and great year ahead.Kind Regards,Rajesh.
When I create the 3 scenarios for a project I usualy have to change the Material Consumption [per Unit Volume] for each material assign an activity. This is very time consuming since I usualy have 100+ materials for a project. When I asign materials ...
I am updating a microsoft project baseline only on the basis of % completed recieved from contractors for diffrent activities.My schedule is just a list of activities with no cost or resource linked to it. Is it the tright way to update the progress ...
Hi Guys, Here's a free 40 page Ebook (with no registration required) on "Understanding Dashboards in Primavera P6" http://ow.ly/gtI5e I hope you find it useful, Emily
Hi All While we are waiting for the Guild to get its act together please got to: http://www.ciob.org.uk/ptmq?goback=%2Egde_2199315_member_200360415 Where the CIOB has launched its new route to Planning/Time control accreditation. I have just filled ...