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Absence of proper Longest Path in a Schedule with many milestones

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We are making a schedule for a building with many contractual milestones which are given constraint "finish on" in P6. These milestones are linked with each other with FS relationship and lag 0. However, with this arrangement the schedule is not show...

Jun 18, 2013

Training and Certification

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Presently I am in Kuwait, please advise me that where I can get training and certification of Spider Project Professional in kuwait. Regards

Jun 19, 2013

Full Preparation Course for Planning Engineers- Free

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Hi every one,I am preparing a Full Preparation Course for Planning Engineers, and i offer my course free of charge for whoever do not have money to pay the fees. And i made the course fees already very low rate (150 $) for those who can pay.Please ta...

Jun 19, 2013

Limit Layout to EPS Node

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Hello,I'm just wondering if there's a way to limit access to certain layouts when working on a project in a particular EPS node. E.g. I have different EPS Nodes for Client programmes, My programmes, and Subbie programes. I also have different layouts...

Jun 20, 2013

Planning Outages in P6

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Planners,I work in the overhead line transmission industry, this mainly depends on client outages in order for us to carry out work.So basically as soon as an outage begins we can start work on the refurbishment of conductors etc, we have a set time ...

Jun 21, 2013

I KILLED My Boss (on paper, that is)

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Not sure which category to place this under ... as it is definitely light-hearted ... but -- I have written a murder mystery about a Project Controls Director who kills his superior, the Vice President of Operations. It takes place in a construction ...

Jun 21, 2013

PMI Scheduling Webinar for PDU: How to Compute Critical Path Drag

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I just received the blast email (reprinted below) from PMI's Scheduling Community of Practice announcing the webinar that I will be doing for them on July 10th. It is FREE to all PMI members, but you have to register for it. Last I heard (about two w...

Jun 22, 2013

New Project Manager

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Dear AllI want to share my views and your comments as well. We have a new project manager after a gap of more than one month. The project at status the moment1-      Progress percentage around 53%2-      13 months behind the schedule3-      Project r...

Jun 22, 2013

Resolving conflicts, when working with portfolios

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Dear all,I am checking the work with portfolios.As far as I understand, the mechanism is as followsWhen you add project to portfolio and then consolidate projects, Spider considers all object except activities to be the same in different projects as ...

Jun 23, 2013

Earned Value Labor Units

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Hi Guys,   I have got a problem with Earned Value Labor Units in one of my projects new activities, that Earned Value Labor Units is not getting calculated according to activity %. Please suggest the possible reason, to fix this error.   Regards, Abi...

Jun 24, 2013

Budgeted Labour Cost in Assignments - Average Only?

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We have different labour rates in different financial years and we need to extract accurate time-phased costs from P6 (Release 7 SP4). The labour rates per financial year have been setup against the resource for the applicable time period. When we vi...

Jun 24, 2013

P6 - Estimate To Complete

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Hello I am trying to use the Estimate to complete (ETC) as my Labor Units for my resource loading histograms.  However, when I go into my reports I am unable to create a report using ETC (only allows me to pick Remaining Units).    Any suggestions? K

Jun 24, 2013

Different Display of Project End Dates when opening same file

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Hi all,I am presently faced with the following issue:The supplier has submitted a MSP file to both me and another planner. However, when we open the file, both of us see different Project completion dates. Both our settings and file source being the ...

Jun 26, 2013

Equivalent to Wbs summary in Ms project

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Hi folks is the there any equivalent to wbs summary (of primavera p6 ) in Ms Project 2007 ? if yes , how to  to do it ? Regards Kamel

Jun 26, 2013

Equivalent to Wbs sumary in Ms project

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Hi folksis the there any equivalent to wbs summary (of primavera p6 ) in Ms Project 2007 ?if yes , how to  to do it ?RegardsKamel

Jun 26, 2013

Incorporating A new Time Schedule to your old one

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I have this problem at work: I have my time schedule which is updated up to data date, now a new area is going to be added to project scope which the engineering and construction activities have been started 2 months before. now thay ask me to prepar...

Jun 26, 2013

Predecessor and Successor

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Dear Sirs,For P6, say Task A is the predecessor as Task B and Task C is the successor for Task B.If I delete Task B, can the linking from Task A-Task B become Task A to Task C?Thank you

Jun 27, 2013