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Best Practices for Resource Management

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The best sports managers in history have all been those who had an intuitive grasp of the resources they had available to them. They had a deep understanding of what each team member could do and who could make a difference at crucial moments. This r...

Mar 23, 2018

Building a Schedule No historical information

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Hello How would you go about building a reliable schedule when the project that you are planning is completely new. What are the requirement considerations, how would you break the scope of work, estimate resources durations costs etc.Any guidance / ...

Mar 26, 2018

Updating baselines with multiple open projects

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Hi All,I am having trouble understanding how the baseline updating works when multiple projects are opened at the same time. I want to batch export data on several projects. After opening all the projects, when I want to reassign the baseline, it onl...

Mar 26, 2018

Using two different resource rates in MS Project

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Hi there, I have a project where I want to track both cost and price within the task view Gantt chart. To explain a little more, each of my resources in the resource sheet has two rates, a standard rate, and then a sell rate which I have put into the...

Mar 27, 2018

Delay Duration and Reason capture in Primavera P6

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Hi,I am trying to setup a way in Primavera P6 to help capture all the delay related information, like delay reasons and durations. Delay Reason: I have come across "Delay Reason" activity code, but that will only allow me to provide a list of broad c...

Mar 28, 2018

How to use Activity Duration Type in Primavera P6

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(If the image is too big, you can read the original article at this link : https://doduykhuong.com/2018/03/25/how-to-use-activity-duration-type-in-primavera-p6/ )In Primavera P6, when we assign resource to activity there is a equation:Original Durati...

Mar 31, 2018

EVM Work To Go formula

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My client would like me to provide % contingency left on the project with respect to BAC and EAC.The formula would then be (contingency remaining) / (work left to go)NowFor BAC, fomula would be (BAC - EV) for remaining work to go.For EAC, would the f...

Mar 31, 2018

Baseline changes and misrepresentation to Tribunal

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Hi Experts I need advice If someone alter changes in the Baseline programme knowningly and present the delay analysis based on the altered baseline to the Tribunal , what are the consequences for doing this. Actually i found all schedule has altered ...

Apr 1, 2018

Resources Labour units not recalculating after Loading

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Hi! I assigned some resource for trial, with its "Default Units/ time as 8/d" and then I assigned it to activities. After scheduling, the programme calculates the labour units based on that. (Pic 1) But then when I change the same resource "Default U...

Apr 2, 2018

Add column(s) to Revision Box

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Is it possible to introduce NEW column(s) into default Revision Box in page setup?  Thanks in advance.

Apr 4, 2018

Why not automatically closing old discussions?

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Once in a while a Planning Planet member revives very old discussions they should have asked years ago when the discussion was active.  It is offensive to many of us such actions.The following being the last one:http://www.planningplanet.com/forums/p...

Apr 4, 2018

Have your say at Planning Planet's community gathering

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The Planning Planet Midlands Kick-Off Meeting will be taking place on Wednesday 18 April 2018 from 18:30 onwards and is available for like-minded Project Controls practitioners in our industry. If you are interested in networking, sharing knowledge a...

Apr 4, 2018

Changing the order of activities

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Hi All,I'm new to using primavera, i currently use Asta Powerproject, so this software is scary compared to what i know.Can anyone help me, i'm trying to simply re-order my activities? To explain what i've done so far:I have added in 3 activities, gi...

Apr 9, 2018

Changing the order of activities

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Hi All,I'm new to using primavera, i currently use Asta Powerproject, so this software is scary compared to what i know.Can anyone help me, i'm trying to simply re-order my activities? To explain what i've done so far:I have added in 3 activities, gi...

Apr 9, 2018

Highlight individual activities in Primavera P6 report

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In primavera P6 report, they do not support to highlight individual activity which we want, such as activity behind schedule. Now, I will share with you one way to do this. And in this demo, I want to highlight activity has Total Float (TF) and Varia...

Apr 10, 2018

Planning Planet Community Kick-Off Meeting: (NJ/NYC/PA, USA)

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[[wysiwyg_imageupload:5542:]]Welcome to the Planning Planet Community NJ/NYC/PA, USA. Our Kick-Off Meeting is now scheduled for passionate Project Controls practitioners who are interested in networking and truly learning more about Project Controls....

Apr 10, 2018