I've recently been asked to take over a team of Planners by my boss however the team are using Microsoft Project whereas the rest of the company uses P6.Having used P6 for 11 years I'm not new to Planning but am completely new to Microsoft Project an...
Good morning everyone,I would like to link the Percent Complete to the Progress Period so that when I am looking at each Progress Period, the Percent Complete entered will reflect that Progress Period. This relationship is present with the Progress P...
Hello Vladimir, For some time I have seen you added a new field called Priority Relative. From what I have read in the manual Spider considers priorities as follows: a). Phase priority is the highest priority and if a phase has a priority then the ac...
Greetings Planners,Based on what to estimate the planned progress for a building project that includes sub-structure and super-structure items (steel fixing, shuttering, casting, deshuttering, slab on grade ect.I have quantities for steel and quantit...
Hi all,I have multiple progress periods, and for some reason, the slip values in the slip column disappear on all progress periods past the 5th one. For all progress periods 1-4, I have had no issues.I am basing the slip on a baseline.Nothing has cha...
Excel Schedules have their uses. (I am a 33 year P3/P6 user also) What is the best one we can get a copy of that you have seen? - price not being an issue either. For example from the MS template database etc. CATEGORY 1 - EASY FOR CONSTRUCTION S...
Sometimes during tender or bid submission for a project, the client might not provide a Project start date and bidders would be required to show ordinal dates in the Gantt chart timeline and calendar days in the start and finish dates columns, so tha...
Hi All, I am using MS Project 2016 and want to renumber a selection of activities but the renumber wbs selected task in ms project 2016 is greyed out. I have tried the task sheet view and removing the autofilter, nothing works Please help. regards...
An engineer does a complicated 15 -20 page schedule that they have worked on for a year as part of the design documents. Then the contractor wins the project and has 60 days to start from scratch to produce a better one - this makes no sense, it is ...
By default, Microsoft Project does not have a baseline percent (%) complete field or column like you would find in other scheduling software like Primavera P6.This video outlines steps to follow if you want to display a baseline percent (%) complete ...
Hi, I have added an expense to my activity. Is it possible that the 'actual cost' of the expense change as physical % complete of the activity changes? Thanks
Afternoon all, Looking for a bit of advice regarding 4d planning software, Not sure what thread to put this is.I am a construction planner currently working for a tier 1 Contractor in the UK , we are looking to use a current project as an exemplar t...
Hi,Can anyone tell me if Primavera has a specific cut off date for long range portfolio planning? I know the system can cope with 10-20 years but am not so sure projecting say 80-100 years plus for full lifecycle portfolio planning. I ran a few sce...
Hello All,I am trying to understand how the Resource Curves are created when using the 21 points shown in the development window.Enterprise > Resource Curves > Add or Modify.[[wysiwyg_imageupload:7689:]]I have a 3 month duration activity with a budg...
Hello All,I am trying to understand how the Resource Curves are created when using the 21 points shown in the development window.Enterprise > Resource Curves > Add or Modify.[[wysiwyg_imageupload:7689:]]I have a 3 month duration activity with a budg...
I have an activity of work which has a defined begining date and duration. For this work there are several deliverable document items. I have set these as start miletones and related to the work activity with a start to start relationshbip. The docu...
I have an activity of work which has a defined begining date and duration. For this work there are several deliverable document items. I have set these as start miletones and related to the work activity with a start to start relationshbip. The docu...
How can i add one time expenses for a project in the total cost that will add up in the total cost but should not distribute in any activity?
I have Primavera EPPM installed on a test server. I have created an EPS, OBS, and user security privileges on the test server. When my IT department moves me to the ‘live’ (or some call it a production) environment. Can I copy the work I created in t...
Hi all,I was wondering if any of you work in any Data Center project? I was thinking of getting into data center projects and was wondering if any of you have a programme sample for data center, if so I would really appreciate it, if you could share ...