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DCMA 14-Point Assessment, Project Schedule Quality Analysis

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DCMA 14-point Schedule Assessment is a project management guideline established on 14 metrics that provide the possibility to make a qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the schedule. It is a handbook developed by the Defense Contract Managemen...

Jul 4, 2018

Gantt Chart is excel

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There are six methods of creating Gantt Chart is excel. attached excel filehttp://projectplanner.in/project-gantt-chart-different-methods-of-making-a-gantt-chart-in-excel/

Jul 5, 2018

Sample work break down structure for different Projects

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Attached sample WBS for1. Cross country pipeline project2. Oil Terminal Project http://projectplanner.in/projects/cross-country-pipeline-project/http://projectplanner.in/projects/oil-terminal-project/

Jul 5, 2018

Training

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A contact recently told me that he would be interested in attending training sessions that I present.So this is a market test to see if there is sufficient interest out there.The prospectus would be:Location: Premier Inn Meeting Rooms around the UK a...

Jul 6, 2018

A "Late Finish" Calculated from Free Float?

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Hello,Does anyone know if there is a form of a "Late Finish" that would be calculated as the latest date an activity can finish without affecting the start date of any of its successor activities? (i.e. Latest Finish where Free Float = 0)I have fabri...

Jul 9, 2018

Resource Shifts

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Greetings to everyone. I am creating a 24 hour Shutdown schedule.Now I Resources are being assigned. There are two working shiftsin this Shutdown first shift- 7Am to 7pm and second shift 7Pm to 7 am. My question is Is it necessary to create two shift...

Jul 10, 2018

Cost loading problem

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Hi guys am new to planning and i have a problem with cost loading...whenever i load non labour resource from the resource tab at the bottom view detail my cost will not register on the time line view in the budgeted non labour column...any help for t...

Jul 10, 2018

Hey people! How's everything going?

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Carlos Arana here.I was just browsing old posts from when I started planning. I do not work construction project controls anymore, but man this forum was so fun and fullfiling.I miss the old discussing how SS and FF were useless. I see the yellow con...

Jul 11, 2018

Hierarchical coding structure

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I have set up a hierarchical project code so I can group geographically rather tahn use the cost driven WBS. However when I pull up the project code as a column I can't populate it.When I select the blank field I expect to be abe to see the structure...

Jul 11, 2018

S-Curve analysis

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Hello everybody, Please, can you comment on this S-curve and give us some explanation about it?waiting your comments....regards[[wysiwyg_imageupload:5737:]]

Jul 11, 2018

P6 || Duration changes post calendar change

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Hi all, Apologies if this has been posted - I did try and look for a similar example. I'm trying to understand why my durations are changing when I change from a normal 5d week calendar (8hrs per day) to a 5d week calendar with non-working days throu...

Jul 13, 2018

New Primavera 17.12.1 set-up with SQL 2014

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Hi all,I am installing Primavera PPM V17.12.1 with SQL 2014 Express database on our company server.Q1: Is this a workable longterm solution. Will the Express SQL DB be able to handle a large program of projects over the long term? Q2: Any specific is...

Jul 17, 2018

How do you baseline metrics for your project?

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My company currently has a Statement of Work (SOW) static document that is supposed to be developed and approved by the end of Planning phase.  This SOW is not between our company and a vendor like most SOWs.  This SOW is between the PMO and the busi...

Jul 19, 2018

Single Resource for Multiple Concurrent Activities

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Hello,The owner is requesting a schedule that has an "access" resource assigned to each activity, but several activities will be performed from the same "access" concurrently in the same location.We have a travelling scaffold system from which eight ...

Jul 19, 2018

Copy User Defined Field (UDF) Data from One Project to Another

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Hello,I have inherited a Baseline Schedule that was developed by previous scheduler and has been going through the revise & resubmit process for several months.When I got on board, I was asked to create a simplified schedule to use for planning purpo...

Jul 20, 2018

Unable to Filter; Received Error Message: AVAA0-1669-0

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As I've been implementing all the helpful advice members have been providing, I suddenly received an error message when attempting to filter: [[wysiwyg_imageupload:5772:]] And it's not just this schedule; filtering no longer works in any of my schedu...

Jul 20, 2018

An issue in Updating my project

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I edited the project activities finish dates but when i update the project the original dates are appearing again Im a new planning engineer in the company and I really need your help

Jul 22, 2018

Baseline programme Narrative

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Hi everybody,I have this question how to prepare programme of works narrative based only on the Baseline programme, and the programme was prepared in MS Project by different person, moreover the programme is missing Method Statement of work.I already...

Jul 24, 2018

Setting Up a New Project

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I am returning to P6 after some time away and would like to ensure I am setting up my project accurately.  Based on estimates, I need  budgeted labour units (man hours) to be fixed and durations to be automatically generated based on the aforemention...

Jul 24, 2018

New software for 5D modelling using BIM

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Hello all.My name is Sergey, and I'm a member of team which are developing new product for construction planning, scheduling and cost estimation. I'm glad to share with you our project on https://www.kreo.net/kreo-plan and discuss problems concerning...

Jul 25, 2018