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Airport Construction schedule

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Hi All,  who can share with us basic things to consider we you plan for Airport construction and if possible share typical schedule shows major activities  thanks 

Sep 28, 2016

Formula Help - Omit summary tasks from formula?

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Hello, The below formula will give a red cross at a task which have an actual%complete less than the planned%complete, and a tick in other cases. switch(PlannedPercentComplete(CB,na)>PercentComplete,high,PlannedPercentComplete(CB,na)<=PercentComplete...

Sep 28, 2016

Baseline Resources - reports

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Good afternoon all, I've been asked if I can generate a report from P6 to show our current plan resource amount vs our baseline resource amount. i.e. when we baselined a job we had for example 20 tons of steel used, as the project has progressed this...

Sep 28, 2016

Baseline Resources - reports

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Good afternoon all, I've been asked if I can generate a report from P6 to show our current plan resource amount vs our baseline resource amount. i.e. when we baselined a job we had for example 20 tons of steel used, as the project has progressed this...

Sep 28, 2016

Total Budget

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Hi everyone,I'm trying to make a simple report showing the budget for each WBS.Is there any way to show a total for everything?

Sep 29, 2016

Baseline Critical Path

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Hi MSapiens/Planners,I'm working on an MS Project file for quite sometime. It has got a baseline that was made long ago. Now, i want to see the critical path in that baseline. Can someone suggest me on sorting this out, using either custom filters or...

Sep 29, 2016

How long would it take to complete PMP certification?

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Now, I have searched a lot of communities and have read a lot of blogposts about the time it would take to complete my PMP certification, but they all quite vary from each other. So, I would like to know if anyone of you has completed PMP certificati...

Sep 29, 2016

Introduction

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Hello Everyone,   I am new here in this forum.

Sep 30, 2016

Error when updating Remaining Units / Time

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Hello, I'm trying to update the Remaining Units/Time in the Resource Activities in my schedule. I have done an export, update the file and when I import I get the following message:Error: Cannot assign the same Resource: RSRC: xxx to TASK ActivityID:...

Sep 30, 2016

how to calculate the peak consuption of concrete with ms project

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Dear All,I'm going to create a matirial resource concrete with standar rate  1/hr and assign for each concrete activities in the gant chart the  concrete resourse then in ihe unit I assign the quantity in cubic meter.  Afetr filter for concrete and s...

Sep 30, 2016

Successful Projects--What We Really Know

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The Standish Grouphas published its annual CHAOS Report on the state of software development since 1994.  The Report is often cited as a key metric for the industry's performance and progress.  The yearly update draws much attention.Analyzing the lon...

Oct 1, 2016

5 Things You Might Not Have Been Told

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5 Things You Might Not Have Been Told Today I would not be sharing a tip on how to use a Planning software but instead I am going to make 5 suggestions that I think people starting out in Project Planning might find relevant. These are my personal th...

Oct 2, 2016

vulgar name calling

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Recently within a LinkedIn discussion one of the members of the GPC used the forum as to call others who do not agree with the guild as a d**khead.  This is wrong and there shall be some minimum standards on how members of the guild behave, we can di...

Oct 3, 2016

Excel Timeline - with milestones

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Hi All;I'm struggling to work this out, what i need to produce in Excel, is a timeline for deliverables, in this case we have designs.For each deliverable (1 row in excel) i have 4 dates (columns), Baseline Design Issue, Current Design Issue, Baselin...

Oct 3, 2016

Lags and type of duration format

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Hi All,Please can you advise on the following-My programme activities are showing incosistent time units on my lags and slope. The activities are showing a mixture of seconds, minutes, hours and days on my activities.Is there a way i can select a con...

Oct 3, 2016

Oracle Releases Primavera P6 EPPM 16.2

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Exciting news from Oracle as they launch their second P6 release for 2016, Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management version 16.2. Here's what's in it http://ow.ly/TdPQ304OqsN

Oct 3, 2016

Help needed. Urgent

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Hello Everyone,  I am a new user to Primavera P6. I recently installed P6 in my company's system. It was running fine i made 3 projects on it. I restarted my system yesterday and suddenly i am unable to open primavera. When i open it and type my pass...

Oct 4, 2016

Please help in my Research Survey

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Dear All, I am a planning engineer who is doing  my researh paper on the challenges of developing and implementing the planning and scheduling program. Can you please spare time in answering the survey on the below link? (Note: if the link does not w...

Oct 4, 2016

10 reasons your project is behind schedule

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Unfortunately many construction projects are completed late. Invariably this negatively impacts the contractor’s reputation and costs both the contractor and their customer money. Often the contractor has to pay penalties for finishing late and they ...

Oct 5, 2016