Best Practices for Resource Management
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What Are Some Good Risk Management Techniques?
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What is the difference between Activity type: Task Dependent and Resource Dependent in Primavera P6
6 years 5 weeks agoIn Primavera P6, there are 2 popular activity type: Task Dependent and Resource Dependent.
So what is the difference?
By choosing Task Dependent or Resource Dependent, P6 will choose what calendar it will use for the activity:
- Choose Task Dependent: P6 use Activity calendar for the activity
- Choose Resource Dependent: P6 use Resource calendar for the
Reinventing the Wheel with Spreadsheets
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Role of “Daily Diary” in Construction Projects
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Forecasting – An Insight on Project Planners Vs Old School Mangers
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Learning to Love the PMBOK®--It Wasn’t Easy
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Management, Project Planning and Control
6 years 7 weeks agoThis is my first note. Actually I have a Persian blog to share my opinion about: Project Management, Project Planning and Control, Strategic Planning and thier softwares. The Latest part of my note is to introduce PowerBI software that is published by Microsoft in 2015. to visit it and my blog follow the link:
4 Bad (Planning) Habits to Kick this Year
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February 15, 2018 | By Dr. Dan Patterson, Guild Fellow of Planning & Scheduling, PMP
After being on the road these last two weeks presenting at project planning conferences and talking to hundreds of project
How does Primavera P6 calculate Planned Value Cost for Activities without linear distribution (using Resource Curves or Manual plan) in Earned Value Management
6 years 9 weeks agoWhen we use Earned Value Management technique, we focus on:
- Planned Value Cost (PV) = Budget At Completion * Schedule % Complete
- Earned Value Cost (EV) = Budget At Completion * Performance % Complete (usually equal to Activity % Complete)
- Schedule Variance (SV) = EV - PV
- SV > 0 : project is good, ahead of schedule
So Planned Value Cost
