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Team Management Application

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Hi all,Any recommendations for a good team management software/application? It must include team management and task delegation and progress features?apprciated your helpmuataz

Feb 3, 2018

Baseline Schedule Narrative

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Dear All,I need a compreshensive narrative report for the baseline schedule, which inlude detailed understanding for anyone involved in the project. Can anyone please share any sample format/templates for the report. ThanksMuhammad Zahidzahidmallick1...

Feb 4, 2018

What characterizes a winning project proposal ?

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People share ideas and projects on a daily basis. However, most of them vanish because these people do not have the resources to pursue those ideas or projects.  In today's connected world, we have alternatives on how to attain funds. The first step ...

Feb 4, 2018

Negative Schedule Variance

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Hi,Is a negative schedule variance indicates that the project will not finish on time?In my opinion NO. because, as of the reporting period, critical items planned values may be achieved and keeping the completion date on time. meantime few non criti...

Feb 5, 2018

Possession calender's without possession calender's

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Hi Due to policy, our contractor can not create custom calenders. However, due to the nature of the worksite (railway), activities can only occur on certain days. So my question is. How do you create a programme with correct total float. As using a 7...

Feb 5, 2018

Importing XLS Causing Resource Assignment Duplication

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I'm exporting resource assignments from P6 to Excel, updating budgeted units, actual units, and at completion units, then importing and Excel sheet into P6. Once the import is complete, I noticed that the resource has been updated based on my import,...

Feb 5, 2018

How to assign resources to part of a tasks

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Hi,Does anyone know how to assign a resource for a period in the middle of a task?I have a number of tasks that are say 10 weeks long, however I would like to assign different resources to the first 4 weeks the middle 2 weeks and the last 6 weeks but...

Feb 6, 2018

Standalone DB backup solution question

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EveningJust thought I'd better check - fairly new to P6 with a basic setup so I've simply enabled Windows' File History to backup the PPMDBSQLite.db to an external HDD on an hourly basis, thinking if there were any irretrievable mistakes, I could the...

Feb 6, 2018

Forensic claim analyst

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Dear All,I'm so pleased to write here, as recommended by my ex. manager to discuss here, I really look forward to hear your advice.In brief, I'm a planning Engineer, instructor of PMP & Primavera, and I already have worked partially within constructi...

Feb 7, 2018

How to Recover a Primavera P6 Password

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I've just written about two options on how to recover a Primavera P6 password. I'm not sure my content is welcome here in the forums, so let me know if this is a subject that you're interested in this.

Feb 7, 2018

Copy Paste Function Not Working In P6

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Good  morning,I am struggling with Primavera to Copy Paste a schedule. When I select paste once schedule is copied, I do not have the option to select Summary Data, when I then select ok I recieve an error that reads Item not found and it gives me an...

Feb 10, 2018

XER Import Error - Changing Version Not Working

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When attempting to import an XER from a new version of P6 to the 8.4 version I have, I get an error stating, "The import file is invalid."I have already changed the version number in notepad. This trick only works sometimes when I import files from n...

Feb 13, 2018

Applying for Jobs through PP

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Hi all,Im curious to know if someone could explain how to apply for the jobs advertised in the 'Jobs' section. Do I need to be a premium member or part of the Guild or Certified? As I cannot see a method of actually applying for the jobs or a link to...

Oct 9, 2019

Week numbers in the date zone

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Hi allI have a 30 week programme that has a 2 week shutdown over Christmas. The current week numbers in the date zone show it coming out as 32 weeks, is there any way to not show week numbers over the 2 week shutdown?ie. up to week 5, then nothing fo...

Oct 9, 2019

How many shutdown planners should I have?

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I know that this is a somewhat open ended quation but I am trying to understand how many shutdown planners should we have in our business.I am fully aware that it is dependant on many factors including:skill level of the plannerSystem health of the C...

Oct 10, 2019

Imported XER is resetting progress

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Hi,Im having a weird issue whereby I am exporting an XER of a project that has been progressed, changing it to a .txt file then opening it in Excel to "bulk add" activity codes. I then save the file, change it back to an xer and import the project.Ev...

Oct 11, 2019

Fluid Structure

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Greetings,fluid structure is one of the many organizational structures in project management, in this structure different tasks are assigned to staff. I do not see any project manager in this structure, how the control will be done?best,Muataz

Oct 12, 2019