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Asta - Draw curve if vertical

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Hello All, Hope you all had a great and rested weekend. A programme has been set to draw curve if vertical by default so everytime i draw a link between 2 tasks, the link will become curve automatically if its vertical. Can i know how do i reset it t...

Feb 9, 2015

Time Is a Cost Even When Nobody Says How Much

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I just published a new blog post “Time Is a Cost Even When Nobody Says How Much” at the Total Project Control  website.  The new blog explains to that even when the sponsor/customer doesn’t recognize the value/cost of time and/or doesn’t know how to ...

Feb 9, 2015

Free Float

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Dear all, I want to indicate Free Float in MSP, both in a column and in the Gnatt bar, is it possible. Regards,satish

Feb 9, 2015

MS Project 2007 - Remaining Work

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Hi, relatively new to using Microsoft Project 2007 and looking for some knowledge.I have created my schedule, resourced and generated my man hours (work). I have used the baseline man hours, extracted from the task usage sheet, to generate a baseline...

Feb 10, 2015

Estimating the Cost of Time When Ain’t Nobody Told Ya!

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I just published a new blog post “Estimating the Cost of Time When Ain’t Nobody Told Ya!” at the Total Project Control  website.This new blog shows how, given only budget and “deadline” instructions, a project manager can do some back-of-the-envelope...

Feb 12, 2015

Pertmaster > Primavera Risk Analysis

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Hello everyone,Im new in the using of the Primavera Risk Analysis program and i have lefted my eyes in the internet searching for tutorials or a good ebook / book to learn by myself how to use it, if anyone knows or have some papers or information i ...

Feb 12, 2015

Calendar Change Issue

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Hi guys,Here I got one problem regarding calendar change. We submitted the baseline and approved from client, in which the calendar used is user-defined 6 working days.Now, delay happens to project. And when we are doing EOT, the project complete dat...

Feb 12, 2015

Free Primavera P6 Downloads

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We’ve consolidated some of our most popular downloads, eBooks, guides and requests for materials into one place http://ow.ly/IW0GW

Feb 12, 2015

Presidents' Day Weekend Puzzle: George Washington's Project Schedule

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It’s President’s Day weekend in the US, and Massachusetts is under the gun for another blizzard. But for all others (even those in other countries) I just published a new puzzle on my blog:  I hope you have fun with it (and yes, it’s only intended to...

Feb 13, 2015

planned labour cost reverts to zero after duration change - WHY?

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I have numerous activities that contain a labour resource, say GANG1, that don't have a resource rate as a price is meaningless in this case. It's 2 men and a van, going on maintenance activities. I then know the budget of the 3d activity of work the...

Feb 13, 2015

Primavera P6 Training Program

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Hello All,   My company is currently trying to educate all field management employees on the use of P6. There are only few people in the company that know how to use the program. We want to get everyone up to speed with this scheduling tool.   We are...

Feb 13, 2015

EARNED VALUE COST DIFFERS

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Why the earned value cost differs, in P6, In an updated  programme when it is assigned with an original Baseline programme and when no base line (Except current project) programme is attached?Please clarify, why Earned Value cost changes this case?

Feb 16, 2015

Why Do We Plan Projects?

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Motivated by a discussion on a LinkedIn project management group, I just posted a new blog “Why Do We Plan Projects?” It makes the case that projects must be planned using such flexible techniques as work breakdown structures, value breakdown structu...

Feb 16, 2015

Planner as a Career

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Hi,I joined as a planner with a small contractor (under 125 workers) working in the oil and gas industry. I am based in Singapore and my company is involved in pipeline and structural works within a refinery & a chemical plant. To elaborate a little ...

Feb 17, 2015