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How many shutdown planners should I have?

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I know that this is a somewhat open ended quation but I am trying to understand how many shutdown planners should we have in our business.I am fully aware that it is dependant on many factors including:skill level of the plannerSystem health of the C...

Oct 10, 2019

Imported XER is resetting progress

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Hi,Im having a weird issue whereby I am exporting an XER of a project that has been progressed, changing it to a .txt file then opening it in Excel to "bulk add" activity codes. I then save the file, change it back to an xer and import the project.Ev...

Oct 11, 2019

Fluid Structure

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Greetings,fluid structure is one of the many organizational structures in project management, in this structure different tasks are assigned to staff. I do not see any project manager in this structure, how the control will be done?best,Muataz

Oct 12, 2019

The Importance of Time Management

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When we talk about time management, we are referring to effectively managing time to make sure we spend the correct amount of time for each action. Effective time management enables people to allot specific time slots in their schedule for tasks and ...

Oct 17, 2019

MS Project Time Scale Error

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Good day Experts,While changing the timescale from Days to monthly or quarterly or yearly in MS project, I'm getting the error of "Invalid argument" because of that, I cant able to change the timescale in MS project and the same MPP file I can able t...

Oct 18, 2019

Guidance Needed for Risk Management Certification

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Dear Experts,I'm holding PMP certification, and currently I'm looking for some risk management certification that has global validation and helpful for risk management professional carriers in the construction sector. Thanks in Advance. 

Oct 18, 2019

How to select correct WBS Percent complete in P6

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Dear everyone,I am creating my own turnaround scheduling, and I am also confusing to select which of the WBS percent complete to reflect and track the progress of my schedule? I have read that "Performance % Complete is the final field, used for actu...

Oct 22, 2019

Schedule Performance Index in P6

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I'm in the process of rebaselining my projects and our management decided to implement SPI with the new baseline. As the revised baseline should show SPI of 1.00 (earned = planned or whatever earned is planned), I made the SPI equal to 1.00 by using ...

Oct 22, 2019

The F9 is Canceled when i close the project

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Hi everyone, I have a probleme with a project in P6, the dates ( delta of 1 minute but the date change to the day after )  of about 30 activities (30/1600) changes when i close and re open the project. I think that the problem comes from the excel th...

Oct 23, 2019

Msc Construction Project Management Dissertation Topic Feedback

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Hi All, I am trying to come up with a research question and general areas of study within planning and scheduling.  They are as follows:To examine criticism of planning tools (primavera, MS project, Astra, full Project Management tools), traditional ...

Oct 23, 2019

The Importance of Management Roles in Business Transformation

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Business transformation occurs when a company makes a change in administrative procedures with the intention to organize people and enhance their performance. It can also aim to adjust an organization’s processes and technologies to meet its business...

Oct 23, 2019

P6 - Event Codes

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Hello, Is there a place to see all the different event codes in P6 and what they mean? We have moved onto a cloud based server and seem to be getting a lot more errors than previously.  ThanksEmma

Oct 24, 2019

Curved Data Date - why? what? when? is it for?

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I am used to seeing a straight data date line. Lately I been seeing curves data date lines, ie curved out around certain activities.  I assume this is from a setting, and after googling it with-out getting an easy answer I am asking you.  What does i...

Oct 25, 2019

The Importance of Management Roles in Business Transformation

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[[wysiwyg_imageupload:7097:]] Business transformation occurs when a company makes a change in administrative procedures with the intention to organize people and enhance their performance. It can also aim to adjust an organization’s processes and tec...

Oct 30, 2019

Modelling men and material logistics

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Hi all, Working on a concentrator build, greenfields next to brownfileds environment. Need to model the men and material flow to optimise bottlenecks, security turnstiles, change houses etc. as well as the way the laydown yard is set-out with require...

Oct 31, 2019

Cannot import XER file, "contains resource data"

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Hello Pplanners,I recently tried to import a XER file into P6 15.2, and I received the following warning/error message "This file contains resource data, import canceled"Does anybody know the reason of this message, that I saw for the first time?Than...

Oct 31, 2019