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Recovery Plan

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I am stuck on what I am doing currently because I do not know how to start doing the recovery program. I completed the update on the actuals and I found out that we are behind the planned schedule for almost 20 days. We are getting worried as this pr...

Dec 4, 2014

Time Schedule

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What are the factors to consider when submitting a time schedule to the client Regards Y.T

Dec 4, 2014

Actual ManHr

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Dear All, What are the best practice to report and monitor actual manpower/manhr spent on each activity?

Dec 4, 2014

ERROR while importing progress from excel

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GuysPlease look into the following error report and tell the way aroundi was trying to update progress from excel file and import is unsucessfull..I know est_wt feild is associated with activity steps..but i am not using any..but y still P6 is asking...

Dec 4, 2014

Safran vs MS Project

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Hi guys,I have many small projects,  they are simple projects and last no more than 6 months, the tasks are just collectingi information from various parties in a sequence. I am thinking which software to use, MS Project or Safran?What we want is :A ...

Dec 7, 2014

Admin - How to lock out XER/XML/etc exports

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Hey all, I have searched and can't find this topic.I currently have a global profile for planners who can see cost in their schedulers. I also have a global profile for planners who cannot see cost in their schedules (it's locked out for them).The pr...

Dec 8, 2014

CS Project Sub Forum?

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I have, up until recently, been extensively using CS Project on a number of NEC based Civil Engineering projects, and have found it to be a great piece of software that was flexible, and fully met the needs of the projects (fully NEC compliant, with ...

Dec 10, 2014

Recommendation of the MBA in Project Management and Project Control.

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This accredited international MBA programme educates the project manager in all facets of management and project control. Business School Netherlands and ARAM Academy have designed this MBA especially for project managers, project planners and projec...

Dec 15, 2014

Transition from Maintenance Planning Engineer to EPC Project Planning

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Hi, I am currently working in Upstream Offshore - Oil&Gas Project in India in EPC Planning & Controls.However I want to know if for a overseas job offer for Maintainence Planning Engineer - Downstream - Petrochemical would be good option ? In terms o...

Dec 16, 2014

Who/when deleted the Activity

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Dear Planners, In P6, is it possible to know Who deleted the activity, and when deleted it. maybe the activity was deleted few days ago, several planners are working in one schedule.   Thanks for your reply.   BR Jason

Dec 16, 2014

Resident Resources Loading

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Hello everyone,I was just wondering how to load the resident resouces of a project ?! I mean, like the site engineer for instance, he has to be involved with each and every activity, but on the same time i don't want to load a "site engineer" resourc...

Dec 17, 2014

Delete posts

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Hello,I have a duplicate post on "My Posts" by mistake. How do i delete a post ?!Wadi

Dec 17, 2014

"Of Saltines and Deadlines", a new blog post

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"Of Saltines and Deadlines", the new blog post at www.TotalProjectControl.com, explores the history of the dead metaphor (borrowed from the US Civil War) that is "the deadline". It also discusses how the use of these (often arbitrary) artifacts damag...

Dec 17, 2014