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  1. ElectraPM

    Schedule: Baseline Vs. Rolling Wave Planning

    I'm in the process of creating a schedule baseline. I would like to use "rolling wave planning" (Progressive Elaboration) to create my schedule - only put in detailed activities for near future work and high level information for the activities in the far future. I'm wondering how this works...
  2. ElectraPM

    Project Schedule: Baseline Vs. Rolling Wave Planning

    I'm in the process of creating a schedule baseline. I would like to use "rolling wave planning" to create my schedule - only put in detailed activities for near future work and high level information for the activities in the far future. I'm wondering how this works with creating a baseline...
  3. ElectraPM

    Engineering Project Management Software

    I know a lot of large firms in my area use Primavera 6. Sorry, I can't help with the pros and cons as I'm wondering the same.
  4. ElectraPM

    Moving into Engineering PM role

    A lot of firms are now looking for PMP certification. If you do not have this, you may want to look into it. Check out PMI.org website and there should be a local charter as well that you can contact for advice.
  5. ElectraPM

    Importing External schedule into a Master- Different calendar options

    I have had some other pressing deadlines so, I haven't been able to play around with these custom fields. I'm sure I will be able to figure it out when I dedicate some time to it. Thank you for your help. I will write a message if I have an issue though.
  6. ElectraPM

    Importing External schedule into a Master- Different calendar options

    I'm very new to MS Project so, I'm not sure what an extra task calendar is so, I don't know if one is used. The external planning data is just get get full picture of project (including all the sub-contractors). The external data is import as sub-projects (well, I'm using MS Project 2007 so...
  7. ElectraPM

    Importing External schedule into a Master- Different calendar options

    I know the problem is how MS Project does the time conversion. My master schedule consists of importing schedules from 6 external contractors. Four of them use 7 hr/day, 35 hr/wk calendars and two of them using 8hr/day, 40 hr/wk calendars. My organization also uses the 7h/d-35h/w calendar...
  8. ElectraPM

    Importing External schedule into a Master- Different calendar options

    I would like to import an external schedule into a master schedule I have but, they have different calendar options. The master schedule has its calendar options set to 7 hr/day, 35 hr/wk. The external schedule has its option set to 8 hr/day, 40 hr/wk. This obviously affects how project is...

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