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Planning Planet Community Gathering (London, UK)

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[[wysiwyg_imageupload:5594:]]Location: The Firestation, 150 Waterloo Road, London, SE1 8SB, EnglandTopics:We meet up, say hello and generally talk and complain about work issuesSuggestions for future gathering(s) (i.e. location, dates, topics, etc.)A...

Apr 26, 2018

New Primavera EPS can't be created !!!

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I deleted the EPS in Primavera 15.1, where primavera accepted to delete all nodes, now I have no records in the EPS, it is completely empty.How can I create a new one if the add button (+) is not available and Primavera doesn't allow to add any new E...

Apr 26, 2018

metering skid fab and install/commission

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Anyone have a schedule for an oil metering skid from engineering, fab, transport install and commission?Interested in seeing the detailed activities that occur Thanks

Apr 27, 2018

Data distribution on the Gantt graph

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In the following figure I have some distributed data shown but I need to disclose which parameters on the leyend.  How it is done?

Apr 27, 2018

Integrated Project Delivery Approach

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In the IPA approach, if the owner assembles the project team without regard to any pre-existing relationships among team members, how can the owner successfully select a primary participant contractor? What are the best practices (tested) criterias o...

Apr 29, 2018

Planning /Programming Training?

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Hi all,First post on here and I am a QS so go easy on me! (Admin feel free to move this message if I have posted it in the wrong area). I'm a freelance QS and rather disillusioned with my career. I spent the first couple of years of my career working...

Apr 29, 2018

Earned value columns based on physical progress

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Hi, My activities' % Complete Type is set to "Physical".  I enter physical progress of the activities, however the earned values do not change. If i enter duration progress e.g remaining duraiton or labor hours, the earned value change.  My question ...

Mar 27, 2021

How to Use Traffic Light to Show Microsoft Project Progress Status

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Sometimes in a Microsoft Project schedule, you might want a quick visual indicator of when a task is behind schedule or in progress and a good way to achieve this is through the use of a traffic light system. This tutorial will show you how to config...

Mar 30, 2021

Better Zoom Meetings

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In one of my training classes, there is an exercise to conduct a daily stand-up meeting.  The meeting should be no longer than 15-minutes and be well structured.  In class, we challenge the leader with common distracting and unproductive behaviors.  ...

Apr 1, 2021

Strict link

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Hi Everyone,In my project i have some activities that can't be executed with delay, the second activity is modeled imediatly after first activity. For this reason I set "strict" on this activities.After scheduling, the report below show me this infor...

Apr 6, 2021

insurance liability question

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Question about insurance liability - this one is only tangently related to our usual schedule items. I am looking at the “value” at bid time of the owner moving from a cap on liability for the contractor comparing 100% of the contract price on liabil...

Apr 9, 2021

Space in Bar

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Greetings PlannersI am updating a baseline schedule, some of the activities that have actual start but not yet completed, their bar after the data date bar is not continous, there is a space between the data date and then the bar for the next period ...

Apr 10, 2021

Non-working days color

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When viewing the primavera Gant chart, the shaded columns representing non-wokring days have become a very light shade of grey and extremly difficult to see.Is there a way to revert them to the original color? or darken the exisiting color?

Apr 12, 2021

Add Decimal Places to Microsoft Project % Complete

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By default, Microsoft Project does not display task % complete numbers with decimal places. In this tutorial, you will learn how to add decimal places to % complete using custom fields. 

Apr 15, 2021

SAP - Planning

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Hello All, I am a Project Control Engineer in Oil & Gas Sector. I keep on hearing SAP requirement in Planning in some companies. Does anyone have an idea of what it is related to and what course needs to be done. I am in UAE. Reccomendation much appr...

Apr 19, 2021

Seasonal or winter assumption variance in regards to delays question

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If I contractor is really delayed 10 days in say June, on a two year project, but then is able to work 10 more days in that following December than the assumption in the schedule, should they still get those 10 days of delay?  If not, why would anyon...

Apr 21, 2021

Work amount , quantity and resource

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I want to confirm something.Lets say we have 1000 lf of conduit to install. One labor installs 200 lf conduits a day. Lets call him worker 1. So it will take him 5 days to complete.Now if we had only him as labor, the duration of this task is 1000/20...

Apr 26, 2021

Why? Or should we/they change logic that completed out of order?

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When a successor is complete 100% the program just skps to the next successor in the chain, so why should the logic be changed to the way it really happened?  Or should we just leave it to keep from complicating the schedule and comparisons?  I used ...

Apr 27, 2021