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Scheduling for Complex Projects

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Based on the CIOB Guide to Good Practice in the Management of time in Complex Projects, this new 2 day workshop will be run in Doha, 9thand 10th October. -  Download the brochure: http://www.mosaicprojects.com.au/PDF/Schedule-Doha.pdf - See more on s...

Aug 6, 2011

P6 V7 Remining Units

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Just upgraded to P6V7 Something seems wring in the remaining Units field does any body have anyideas ?   Budgeted Labour Units 538Hrs Physical % Complete is 38 % Unit % Complete is 38 % Actual Units = 269 (Automatic update) At Completion Labour Units...

Aug 8, 2011

Curva S

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I wonder how best to generate an S-Curve physical progress without resource allocation. Using MS Project 2003 / 2007. Thank you.

Aug 8, 2011

Showing "% Complete" on Y-Axis of resource profile in P6.7

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Hi All,   I have searched for this answer but cannot find,   At the moment my resource profile (S-curve) in P6 shows time on X-axis and units on Y-axis. (Standard format)   What box do I tick to instead show "% complete" on the Y-axis (based on budge...

Aug 9, 2011

Generating Report of Resource usage profile

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HiIn P6 , in Reports workspace , i want to generate Resource usage profile reports , but could not find any options . Can anyone help.Although it can seen through printing option , but i want to see it through Report workspace.Thanks

Aug 9, 2011

Importing files

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Dear Readers, I'm working with Primavera P6 v7 and have a recurring issue. Every week we receive (via email) updated XER files from our suppliers containing circa 20,000 activities. We cannot use the enterprise function of Primavera for reasons I won...

Aug 9, 2011

Resource Working Alternate Months How to Model this in Primavera

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Oh HI Guys I hope you are doing well. One my resource is working alternatively on my project how do i model this resource hours on my plan Package A  Resource X working 2 days  Jan , Mar , May, July , Sept , Nov. I have used suspend activitu but it d...

Aug 9, 2011

Resource Working Alternate Months How to Model this in Primavera

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Oh Hi I hope you are doing good Can you please help me modelling Resource hour in my schedule who works alternate months So lets assume if Resource X is working on Package A and he  works 2 days in Jan March May July Sept Nov How do i model this in p...

Aug 9, 2011

Level Of Effort - Resource Assignments

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Hi all, I have a LOE activity (named project management) that spans the length of a 3 year project, it has around 12 project based resources assigned to it. Currently I manually enter in there annual leave by zeroing out the hours in the resource ass...

Aug 9, 2011

Are You a Whole Team?

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This article proposes four “smells” that might indicate that you’re not optimally practicing whole-team approach in your Scrum software development project http://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/are-you-a-whole-team/

Aug 9, 2011

How to update Unique Fields using excel and importing back to P6?

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Dear All: Good day! I'm a beginner in using P6 and I have some problems updating the Units (Budgeted Nonlabor Units). What I am trying to do is to match the budgeted nonlabor units and the at completion nonlabor units in excel then import it back to ...

Aug 10, 2011

Order of activities within WBS

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If I have several activities with the same start and finish date, and I am sorting by Start Date, how does P6 determine the order of the activities? It doesn't seem to be alphabetical after start date, is there any way I can change the order of activ...

Aug 10, 2011

Cadd Centre

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Hi Admin I have discovered that the new member CADD CENTRE is passing off the product of a company called GlobalSpec as their own. I have sent a warning to GlobalSpec on their website and I suggest we do not take down the offending threads until Glob...

Aug 10, 2011

Cannot set data date on start of the day

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I imported a programme from P3 t P6. In the P3 version of the programme, 1-day work occupied the whole 1 day, but in P6 it only occupied an 8-hour period. I changed the calendar to solve this. But one thing I cannot changed is the data date. It is lo...

Aug 10, 2011

Diferences between 2 versions of the same schedule.

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Hi,I am adding logic and removing restrictions to a schedule originally made in MSP. I got only a PDF with predecessors and activity dates and it is obvious that most dates are based on activity restrictions. However, it is also obvious that many of ...

Aug 10, 2011

how to add more items in code libraries

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HI,   I'm using Asta easyplan. I'm creating a tender programme. I'm trying to put all of the different stages into different colours so I used the code libraries option and dragged the headings to the tasks and then renamed the headings.. I assumed I...

Aug 10, 2011

Revised Schedule Problems

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To All Expert;I revised the baseline after 6 mos. of implementation because there are other areas to be added plus the variation order.The bottom line is after the said revision my s-curve start in the present data date, the previous %complete doesn'...

Aug 10, 2011