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PrimaveraBlog, Tutorials, Project Management,P3,P3ec. Toolbox4Planning: Sample WBS for Electrical Construction Work. The WBS (work breakdown structure) for electrical construction work for a petrochemical project is broken down as below.

Toolbox4Planning: Sample WBS for Electrical Construction Work

It can be adopted and modified to suit your project scope and requirements. WBS Code Descriptions E Electrical Construction E.1 Plant Area E.1.1 Building No E.1.1.1 Substation Work and Feeder Cabling E.1.1.1.1 Generator/substation work. PM eBooks. PrimaveraBlog, Tutorials, Project Management,P3,P3ec. On Project Management. Toolbox4Planning: Tutorials. Primavera Trainer.

Toolbox4Planning. Earned Value Management (EVM) Wiki. ANSI Standard 748 Guideline 1 requires defining of authorized program work elements.

Earned Value Management (EVM) Wiki

32 Guidelines for ANSI EIA 748 EVMS. Oracle Primavera P6 Professional – What is a Reflection? A Reflection is an interesting concept and as far as I know (correct me if I’m wrong folks), is unique to Primavera P6.

Oracle Primavera P6 Professional – What is a Reflection?

You can think of a Reflection as a special what-if copy of a project. Unlike a straight copy however, a Reflection retains a link back to the source project. That means that if the Reflection is changed, you can merge some or all of those changes back into the source project. Click on any of these images to enlarge them. This is a very slick what-if capability. Right-click on the Project you wish to create a Reflection of and from the context menu, select Create Reflection. If you have a baseline in your source project, then you will get an extra dialog allowing you to select which baselines get copied.

Upon clicking OK, Primavera P6 creates the Reflection, in the same EPS node as the source project. Max's Musings - Scheduling: Examining the Start to Finish Relationship. Musings Index From time to time I receive Emails that raise intriguing issues of general interest.

Max's Musings - Scheduling: Examining the Start to Finish Relationship

Here is such a question (edited for web page clarity.) Norris S. Goff wrote 1/14/09, "Subject: Re: PMBOK® Guide 4th editionMax, please give me your view on the following that I recently reported to the Project Management Institute. Max responded Hello Norris: Thank you for your Email. I think the relationships should read more logically according to the 1996 PMBOK® Guide, where the four possible types of logical relationships were expressed as follows: Start to Finish relationship - Microsoft Project. CPM 2 of 2 - CCE Prep - Develop Critical Path. Mosaicproject’s Blog. There is undoubtedly the equivalent of an ‘urban myth’ in circulation within the general project management community, arising from US Defence based research from the early 1990s, that the Cost Performance Index (CPI) always stabilizes at the 20% completion and the final outcome will be within 10% of this value and usually worse.

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The Global Epicenter of Construction Project Planning and Scheduling. Planning Engineers Organisation - project management & scheduling experts. Mosaicproject’s Blog. During the last couple of months whilst we have been busy updating our PMP, CAPM and PMI-SP training materials to align with the new PMI examinations lots has been happening on the project controls world.

Mosaicproject’s Blog

AIPM have re-launched the Project Controls Community of Practice The aim of the PC-COP is to provide a direct link between all of the various specialist groups and the more general project management community and is planned as a free to join open forum. Currently centred in Melbourne, the plan is to expand nationally. To get on the mailing list and/or contribute email Mark.Ruffell-hazell[at]defence.gov.au PMOz introduces more innovation and excitement The PMOz conference in Melbourne on the 17th and 18th September is shaping up to be a really engaging and fun event – Offering the highest intensity of PDUs of any Australian conference this is a not to be missed opportunity, see: www.pmoz.com.au One of PMOz’s core themes is project controls.

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Primavera P6. What is bucket planning in Primavera P6 - Project Controls Tools (Ex., Primavera P3/P6, MS Project) - Project Controls Online. Excerpt from PCO : A bucket is another term for "timeperiod.

What is bucket planning in Primavera P6 - Project Controls Tools (Ex., Primavera P3/P6, MS Project) - Project Controls Online

" In Primavera applications, you can view, enter, and edit activity and assignment data in various buckets, such as daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly, and financial period. The term "bucket" is generally used in future period bucket planning, which enables you to manually enter and edit assignment data for some activities in future. What is future period bucket planning ?

Ans : When you specify an activity's total budgeted units, the budgeted units for an assignment to that activity are spread evenly across the duration of the activity, in the timescale increment you choose. 1) Assign a Resource Curve to the resource/role assignment. 2) Manually enter the assignment’s budgets units or remaining units in future period buckets (timeperiods) Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management.

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