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Know Your Stakeholders

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Stakeholder management is one of the most critical project management functions.  Stakeholders are our customers, organizational leaders, members of our project teams, and people we may not even know.  The project manager’s ability to effectively ide...

Nov 1, 2019

When to rebaseline a schedule

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Hi. I would like to know when is the best time to rebaseline a schedule. Is there a standard variance value that should be considered or is it different with each schedule? If it is different for each schedule what is the best approach to deciding th...

Nov 5, 2019

Problems with installing P6 EPPM 18.0

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Hi all.I got problems with. I've been installed1)Java JDK -OK2)Weblogik - Ok3)Oracle XE - OkBt when i'm installing EPPM Primaveraб Data base is'nt greating.I open a log and read such a problem: ORA-65096: invalid common user or role name  Has anyone ...

Nov 7, 2019

Beginner Resource Leveling Issue

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Hi, I'm fairly new to MS Project and have been doing some practice pieces before I look at using it for anything at work. To this end I've created a schedule for a large dinner I'm making over the course of a week - over 100 components so it is also ...

Nov 7, 2019

Project Planning: The difference in knowing the principles

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 Coming from an Agricultural background to the construction industry has been a massive change in my life. While working in agricultural irrigation I completed a course in the Principles of Project Planning part time through Profactaplan(https://www....

Nov 8, 2019

Primavera 18 opens last opened project upon startup!?

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Primavera 18 opens last opened project upon startup!?  How do I turn this off?  I think I read that it can be turned off in user preferences but that is not correct.  With last file I imported, something went bad.  And now primavera tries to open it ...

Nov 10, 2019

Resource % Usage in P6

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How do I go about in assingning resources with a specific % usage within P6? Looking to mirrior the same function as in Microsoft projects resources. Anythings helps. Thanks. 

Nov 14, 2019

P6 Not Exporting Full Cost Account ID

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I am trying to export the entire cost account ID into excel. It appears as if primavera only takes the end value of the ID. So if I have a cost acount ID 00A.01 it will only export 01. Is there any way around this? 

Nov 14, 2019

Date Difference between MSP and P6

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I have an activity for 22.5 days in P6 and MSP.   Both have calendars that are 6X10 with Sunday non working.   In P6 I get the dates 3/27/20 to 4/16/20 and in MSP 3/27/2020 to 4/24/2020.  There is a need to use the MSP plan as an overall roadmap and ...

Nov 15, 2019

Activity usage profile

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Does anyone know why actual bar in the activity usage profile shows a different number from what we get in the activity table column? We have set financial periods. Our “actual this period” doesn’t match with the profile.

Nov 17, 2019

SPI calculation in P6

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In our previous month’s update we had a forecast (remaining early)of 10 million for this month. This month our actual is much less than last month and is around 5 million. We have assigned previous month’s update as our baseline for this month. So th...

Nov 17, 2019

Weekly schedule % complete.

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Hi all,Just wondering, in P6 if there is any way to get weekly planned schedule % complete in excel. Thanks,Kind Regards,Syed

Nov 18, 2019

Overall Weightage by Cost

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Hello Everyone,Need Help.I saw a schedule in which the Progress is weighed by Cost.Each activity under each WBS has a cost. So everytime it is updated the WBS shows the % Planned and % Actual.Overall it shows % Completed based on Cost.So how can it b...

Nov 18, 2019

BI Export - working days and elapsed duration

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Hi In my model I extract tasks data according to line below from model file:<Column name="DurationDays" datatype="Duration" group="Date" formula="Duration / '1d'"/> The problem is that some tasks have duration in working days and some of them in elap...

Nov 18, 2019

Same plan 2 computers different calculations - help please

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Good afternoon/Morning depending where you are.A fellow planner has come to me with an issue today, he's finding odd calculations in his plan.  I've opened the same plan (we're in the same server).On mine the original duration is different, the remai...

Nov 19, 2019

Earned Value Tracker template

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Hello, I work in the Oil & Gas Engineering projects. The client has requested for a EVM tracker. Can someone share a template and brief guideline, on how to calculate it. Thanks for your efforts and time,Nisha

Nov 19, 2019

Earned Value Tracker template

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Hello, I work in the Oil & Gas Engineering projects. The client has requested for a EVM tracker and Productivity reports. Can someone share a template and brief guideline, on how to calculate it. Thanks for your efforts and time,Nisha

Nov 19, 2019

Filter activities by resources

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Dear all,is there a way to filter activities, which have certain resources assigned? E.g. I want only activities, which have resource A and B assigned 

Nov 20, 2019

Producing Reports from P6

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  Good Morning All I am using P6 v16.2 I cannot get a report out of it formatted as I want it to be, it is a simple report showing planned units for labour and materials, when I export to excelas an xls file the data on each line is one long line of ...

Nov 21, 2019