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How to tell a Builder from a Planner

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Hi All Planners How many of you are also builders? A simple question - what goes first Formwork or Rebar? Answer Please. Mike Testro

Jan 7, 2012

PP Love Letters

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Hi Everyone I have just been plagued by three personal messages from someone on PP who signs as Romina - user name Joy Fabb. They appear to be offering the prospect sexual services. Lucky me you might say - but the only erections discussed on PP shou...

Jan 7, 2012

Research topic related to planning / scheduling

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Hi all,I am working as lead planner and doing Masters in Project Management. I am looking for some good research topic for my degree, I am just wondering if somone can help find a research topic related to planning / scheduling.ThanksTariq 

Jan 8, 2012

Importing Oracle EAM data into P6

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HI,We are currently trying to import data from Oracle EAM in XML format into a stand alone version of P6.7.We have data which is exported from EAM however it always fails to import (I do have a copy of the code)There is meant to be import/export func...

Jan 9, 2012

Spaces available on popular Delay & Disruption course in London

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Asta's popular Delay and Disruption course now taking bookings for London in April. Spaces go very quickly as this is a very popular course so early booking recommended for anyone who is interesting in attending. For more information see http://bit.l...

Jan 9, 2012

Updating a Program with 5,000 Activities

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Hi All, I have a programe with almost 5000 activities.No for a specific Period there are hundreds of activities going on.What is the best way to update such programs?I am using Primaver P6 best Regards

Jan 10, 2012

Budget Total Cost Not Exporting?

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I have a programme, with reosurces assigned that have a cost assigned to them but they are not showing when imported by someone else when I export the Programme as an Xer file and e-mail accross to them, am I doing something silly here or is there a ...

Jan 10, 2012

Calendar of the resource

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Dear All,My project is created as a baseline schedule in terms of activities but when I came to insert resources in resource dictionary, the project calendar I created is not default for the resources, how to solve this problem?Regards,Moutaz

Jan 10, 2012

Spider demo is not working

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Hii downloaded both spider project demo (lite and professional ) but for whatever reason, they don't work,  spiderdeom has stoped working, any idea ? windows 7, 32 bit , SP1 regardsmimoune djouallah

Jan 11, 2012

Progression as a Project Planner

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Hi everyone, I was just hoping some of you would be able to give me some advice as to how I can progress my career as a project planner. I started of as an electrician but branched into the planning side of the job. I have now been planning for the l...

Jan 11, 2012

Start and Early Start

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Dear Planners,What is the difference between Start and Early Start?Regards,Moutaz

Jan 12, 2012

WBS Files for Government Acquisition Programs - Useful Templates

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Hi Guys, Here are some free WBS templates that you can download for all the Government Acquisition Programs http://bit.ly/zKlU0Y They are categorized by program type and are in CSV format so you can easily import them into most Project Management and...

Jan 12, 2012

Schedule progress agrument

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Let's say in a complex construction project, contractor claims that he has completed 80% of the work but the inspector say he has done only 60%.  How can you check which one in correct by Primavera?  I am not asking to go EVM issue.  Is this really p...

Jan 12, 2012

Pertmaster Iterations

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How do you view a specific iteration? For example, after 1000 iterations are performed, I would like to examine the critical path of an iteration in the range of 80% probability so I can evaluate the durations.Thanks

Jan 13, 2012

Betty Wolf

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Hi Admin We now have a Betty Wolf sending out fishing messages. How can we stop this nuisance? Best Regards Mike T.

Jan 14, 2012

question about labour units in P6

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Hi all, I have found a problem in my primavera program. I didnt assign any labour type resources to the activities of my program. But in Budget Labour units column, Primavera is showing some values?  Why it is coming like this? Thanks in advance........

Jan 15, 2012