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Primavera P6.7 Baseline Comparison Problems

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Good day Planners & The Like;I have a small problem, i am hoping its really that small.. well here it goes.I have made a Baseline Schedule Schedule out from our very own initial schedule. and so it goes.. after a few months of updating and revisions ...

Aug 9, 2013

NEC3 ECSC OPTION B COMPENSATION EVENT HELP!

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HI. Need help. PM has rejected the below compensation events! Do i have a case if i take it to an adjudicator/court? Compensation Event #1Clause: 60.1The following are compensation events. (1) The Project Manager gives an instruction changing the Wor...

Aug 9, 2013

Statistics or Project Success studies

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All,I am looking for any studies or whitepapers that have been conducted on;1) Project Startups - The increased chance of project success if the planning and initial setup is done thoroughly2) Project Execution - The lowered risk of project failure t...

Aug 13, 2013

Preparing an EOT Claim

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Dear All,I am working for a contracting company which is undertaking a "Warehouse Building Project". There are 2 contractual milestones, Milestone-1 to finish one warehouse by the end of 10 months and Milestone-2 to finish the balance of the warehous...

Aug 13, 2013

Biggest challenges bridging the gap between IT department?

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 I'm a QA engineer and often find myself stuck between technology and business people who speak 2 speak totally different languages. I'd like to improve communication between groups, what are some of the biggest challenges you face as project manager...

Aug 14, 2013

calculating multiple float paths

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I am having a problem with my schedule in calculating multiple float pathsThe contractors schedule submitted to me has over 6000 activities this is my first month on this project and I am not very familiar with this schedule. For some reason whenever...

Aug 14, 2013

Sr. Planners FPSO / Houston, Texas

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SBM Offshore is currently looking for Sr. Planners with FPSO experience.  Positions are direct hire and are in Houston, Texas, USA.  Please visit our website at www.sbmoffshore.com and select the "Working with us" tab.   Submit your CV for the Sr. Pl...

Aug 14, 2013

Importing/Exporting from/to CSV

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Hello Vladimir,I have created an Excell Macro that will generate an "oper" document and save it as a text tab delimited file, in order to import activities into Spider. I have set up the Macro to create for all activities all the "Standard" column va...

Aug 14, 2013

Schedule Referencing / Numbering

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I need to know where I can apply a schedule number and revision number to the schedule.I also need to know how this information can be generated in the border. I have tried this in the page set up but when I open up another project the information th...

Aug 15, 2013

About Consumable Resources / Materials and Spatial Resources

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The two most common categories of resources on CPM software are; renewable resources and consumable resources.Renewable resources are renewed as soon as a particular activity using the resource ends.   Only the total resource use at every time instan...

Aug 16, 2013

S-Curve on P6

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Hi There,Please advise if we can generate an S-curve on P6 without any resources and cost on the activities. I've been trying to do this but it seems that the software cannot do it.Any suggestions?Thanks.

Aug 20, 2013

S-Curve on P6

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Hi There,Please advise if we can generate an S-curve on P6 without any resources and cost on the activities. I've been trying to do this but it seems that the software cannot do it.Any suggestions?Thanks.

Aug 20, 2013

Predecessor Bar Color?

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Hi, I was learning how to use Primavera back in college around 2007 and had not use it since. I just started using it again for Scheduling in my new office. In the previous version that I used when I was in school, when you linked two activities, the...

Aug 21, 2013

Schedule task based on resource availability

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Hi, I want to schedule a task based on the resource availability. As per plan:Project Start date is 02.06.2013Piling Work Starts on 02.06.2013 by default, duration is 90 days, end date of piling is  say, 01.09.2013My resource , the piling rig will be...

Aug 21, 2013

Statutory undertaker

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Hi, The contractor was handed over the land to build the road for the govt. agency. Some utilities need to be shifted in which statutory undertakers (SU) were involved. As per the contract, the contractor needs to pursue the matter with the SU for ob...

Aug 21, 2013