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Why Won't We Recognize the Value/Cost of Time?

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I just posted a new blog article titled “Why Won’t We Recognize the Value/Cost of Time?” This article discusses how blind our entire project management profession is (including PM software!) to the critical need to estimate what the cost is of late c...

Jun 5, 2015

EPC

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Hi All,How to create two EPC in one project?Thank you.

Jun 7, 2015

P6 4D Planning

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What is the easiest and most affordable way to integrate P6 with visualisation software to create 4D planning simulations?

Jun 7, 2015

Hello all.

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Im new into P6 and have issues linking construction activities for villa project....the company is aware of my status and has given me a grace of two month...any video reccommendation with focus on constuction activity sequence and relationships.

Jun 8, 2015

Changing resorce type

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Afternoon all :) I have a P6 v8.4 programme in which a material resource has been used to generate cost. as we are working ot an activity schedule, all costs have to be allocated at the finish of the task.My problem is that any time th eduration vari...

Jun 8, 2015

CCPM vs.CPM

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How many are reading all of the technical articles concerning CCPM (Critical Chain Project Method)? What is everyone's thought on this?

Jun 8, 2015

Pre-FEED planning - PMO support

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What support does your PMO provide at project setup? I was hoping for a poll, but no such luck. What I'd like to know is how you initially determine your project duration and initial estimate. Actually, I'm looking for the step or two after you recei...

Jun 9, 2015

Controlling Contractor's Schedules

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Hello, I hope I'm posting in the right section.My question is, How do I control Contractor schedule as a consultant, while I should do cost control on myself (as consultant) for the same project?If I speak my mind, I'd say, I can do one of the follow...

Jun 10, 2015

Project Management and Senior Management: Reconciling Their Needs

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I just posted a a new blog article. It’s titled “Project Management and Senior Management: Reconciling Their Needs.” You can find it here. This article discusses why there is often such a chasm between the views and needs of project managers and thos...

Jun 10, 2015

Import update from PMS(excel) to multiple programs in P6

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Hi All,I am a fresh planner and very recently my boss allowed me to start updating the program. The issue is that i am having a baseline and recovery programs and i have to update same activities twice which consumes a lot of time, bcoz first i updat...

Jun 10, 2015

Task dependent activity - right or wrong?

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Hi everyone,I am looking at having a discussion or debate in regards to the wisdom of having an activity type that is task dependent. In P6, a Task dependent activity is described as 'an activity that is scheduled according to the activity's calendar...

Jun 11, 2015

Importing Excel date to P6

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1.       While importing from XL, Actual Dates are updating and Physical % Complete is not updating2.       Even If Physical % complete is updated manually, Remaining Duration is not changing3.       Actual Expense cost is also imported, but not upda...

Jun 14, 2015

seeing successor and predecessor as columns

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i am trying to see predecessor and successor of activties as column. but i do not see columns for that . how can i add predecesor and successor columns? they dont exist? if so why? it seems pretty basic, even in ms project they exist

Jun 15, 2015

changing timescale

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how can you change the timescale in p6? i use 8.4i saw a few options but they are not enoughi want to be able to modify it as i want, and not one of the fixed options given to usis it possible?

Jun 15, 2015

About knowing schedule % at certain date without schedule

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Hi EveryoneI hope everything is going just fineOk well, i have this problem iam sure there is a filter to do this to view BL values without press F9without changing DD i want to look to my BL values Any Comment will be very much appreciated.

Jun 15, 2015

XER file size increasing

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Please, I need help understanding my problem!Last year we upgraded to Primavera version 8.3.  We recently noticed that the size of our xer export files has been increasing exponentially for some time now and is now quickly getting out of hand.  My kn...

Jun 15, 2015