Let’s Challenge SPIDER
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In the very interesting thread http://www.planningplanet.com/forum/forum_post.asp?fid=1&Cat=9&Top=64826 I wrote that Spider Project software can calculate project schedules and budgets taking into account all possible constraints and has all functionality necessary for proper planning.
I proposed to suggest hard tasks, something that most or all packages cannot do. I will answer if and how it can be done in Spider.
For those who did not hear about Spider Project - this is Russian professional PM software. At the moment it is used in 26 countries.
So this thread is for questions on functionality that is useful but is not supported by the packages that you use.
Rafael Davila hopes that other software developers will look at this discussion and then will make their packages more functional.
I will start with answering to his question on project scheduling with financial constraints.
Sometimes when you start the project you have not all necessary money. You may know when and how much money will come to the peoject (financing schedule). If financing schedule is a part of your project schedule model then Spider Project will calculate project schedule taking into account financial limitations and delaying activities when there are no money to proceed.
Actually it is even more complex - some activities may generate money (selling flats in the building in the process of construction for an example), that may be used for financing other activities.
All this can be simulated and an example of the project with financial constraints is included in the Spider Demo.
I am waiting for your questions and hope for fruitful discussion on PM software functionality.
Best Regards,
Vladimir
I proposed to suggest hard tasks, something that most or all packages cannot do. I will answer if and how it can be done in Spider.
For those who did not hear about Spider Project - this is Russian professional PM software. At the moment it is used in 26 countries.
So this thread is for questions on functionality that is useful but is not supported by the packages that you use.
Rafael Davila hopes that other software developers will look at this discussion and then will make their packages more functional.
I will start with answering to his question on project scheduling with financial constraints.
Sometimes when you start the project you have not all necessary money. You may know when and how much money will come to the peoject (financing schedule). If financing schedule is a part of your project schedule model then Spider Project will calculate project schedule taking into account financial limitations and delaying activities when there are no money to proceed.
Actually it is even more complex - some activities may generate money (selling flats in the building in the process of construction for an example), that may be used for financing other activities.
All this can be simulated and an example of the project with financial constraints is included in the Spider Demo.
I am waiting for your questions and hope for fruitful discussion on PM software functionality.
Best Regards,
Vladimir
381 replies
Oldest first- 0Rafael Davila ·John,
Because the main theme of this topic is to challenge Spider and it does provides for different resources to be assigned the same skills with different productivities I would like to know how Micro Planner X-pert handles this issue. For example you have available one C+++ expert engineer that can code 1.5 times as fast as 2 rookies, how you take this into consideration within MP-X.
Best regards,
Rafael - 0Rafael Davila ·John,
Thanks for your prompt reply, I used Micro Planner Manager for the Mac before and loved it.
Vladimir,
I kind of prefer the software to look at the options and make the decision; I am not to ask the PM for his preferences on every run especially on jobs with hundreds of activities, I prefer him to tell me the assignment priorities when preparing the model for the first time.
As you know I might be proficient with Primavera SureTrak that lacks the functionality for skills, crews and a few others Micro Planner and Spider have. As a rookie at these functionalities within Spider Project I know we have at the resource assignment tab the following options among many others, workload, productivity and priority.
Please tell me if I am correct with the following statements;
1) in Spider Project work load and productivity are kept separate and there is no need to use one to mimic the other as these parameters can be set up individually per activity assigment, keeping the interpretation simple and both available at the same time.
2) in Spider Project the priority field is also independent per activity assignment and that it can provide me with the rule for the software to make the appropriate decision for hundreds of activities every time I run the schedule. Of course a schedule is dynamic and preferences can be adjusted on an exception basis if the PM finds it appropriate.
Best regards,
Rafael - 0Augustin Purnus ·Hi Rafael,
You can work with the default options at the Resource Assignment level, but if you have information and want to model better the way project will be run, than you can use a specific workload and productivity. The productivity together with the resource quantity and Volume of Activity will allow calculating the activity duration during scheduling.
The estimation we made for activity duration based usually on the same info will be avoid. But using productivity means to have some recorded history. In the Eastern part of Europe we have work norms (or corporate norms) with this kind of information. It helps you not only to easily estimate the project cost for tender purpose (it is a huge database), but also to plan and schedule construction and to monitor and control it.
The priority will be used to fine tune the schedule, or to define some important resources over others.
But, what is in my opinion an important option, is “Variable quantity and workload”. It will allow to model multi-tasking phenomena which is the reality.
Any person involved in a project may perform in a certain day (or time interval) several activities. Other software, I don’t know Micro Planner X-Pert, do not level resources based on the quantity because such data doesn’t exist. Even Critical Chain suggests to avoid multi-tasking. But this is in the nature of how we work.
Using this option will give you a shorter duration of the project after resource constrained scheduling. Try it with two or three resources and activities and compare the results with what will give you SureTrak or MSP.
Best regards,
Augustin - 0Vladimir Liberzon ·Rafael,
below are the answers to your questions.
1) in Spider Project work load and productivity are kept separate and there is no need to use one to mimic the other as these parameters can be set up individually per activity assigment, keeping the interpretation simple and both available at the same time.
Yes, you are right. But I want to bring your attention to the ability to set quantities and workloads separately.
Most packages cannot do it. The users can define only total workload. As the result the workload of 200% may mean 2 resource units with 100% workload, 4 resource units with 50% workload, 5 resource units with 40% workload, etc. You just cannot specify the real needs.
2) in Spider Project the priority field is also independent per activity assignment and that it can provide me with the rule for the software to make the appropriate decision for hundreds of activities every time I run the schedule.
Again you are right. The assignment priority defines the rules for resource selection in skill scheduling. Usually the schedules managed with Spider Project consist of thousands activities.
Best Regards,
Vladimir - 0Rafael Davila ·Agustin,
“Variable quantity and workload”. I noted this but not yet there, your experience will be of great help.
If you noted on one of my prior posting about synchronization of update among several versions I called it as easy as 1,2,3 or a piece of cake so about probability and trends I will give it a try and maybe ask for your help. Perhaps it looks like much work but at a click of the mouse, the computer got to work and multitask also.
About norms, are you referring to reference books? If so, not yet there also.
About multitasking you should know that for 30 years I worked at the construction site, first as project engineer then as project manager, we did not multitasked but mega-tasked or giga-tasked.
But it also happens with equipment, a tower crane would be assigned several jobs at the same time, at times would be handling rebar materials, then gang forms, then a few other things.
Best regards,
Rafael
- 0Rafael Davila ·John,
“You said: "Other software, I don’t know Micro Planner X-Pert, do not level resources based on the quantity because such data doesn’t exist.”
This was Vladimir, this is a kind of argument of a software developer that know better than I do. I am an end user who is starting to appreciate good resource leveling as my prior experience with Primavera SureTrak was no good at all. As a matter of fact most of these years I was using soft relationships to force the software to solve in this way resource constraining issues and then verified resource loading vs. availability without running resource leveling at all.
My projects rarely go over 600 activities, 30% procurement, they rarely go over 30$M US but they need all the functionality of advanced CPM software.
I believe there is a high possibility MP-X has a superb engine. If so this will confirm my argument, not all resource leveling algorithms are equal and this is a relevant functionality that differentiates the software. By the way Spider keeps several algorithms for your choice as these yields different results, one of them looks for a solution set that yields minimum job duration within your constraints but it might happen you prefer other solution, or that under certain circumstances one yields better results than the other.
Thanks for your contribution, many of your suggestions can be adapted to other software if need be, also I am sure many MP-X users appreciate it also. I hope you continue posting in PP about MP-X here and even in threads of your own, these will be enlightening.
Best regards,
Rafael - 0Carlos Arana ·C’mon, people, we’re losing scope here. Let’s challenge Spider! In giving challenges to Spider we give Vladimir the oportunity of improve Spider Project. He’s asking for challenges, he’s not asking how much are your projects worth, he’s not asking "What can Spider Do that your Tool can’t?", he’s asking "What can YOUR tool do that Spider can’t?" or, also, "What can’t YOUR tool do that you’d wish it can?"
The goal should be defeat Spider with something it can’t bear, "functionality that is useful but is not supported by the packages that you use". Something that requires workarounds.
Sure, Spider can’t model human behavior so please don’t come here to bluff that you can manage with eyes closed and your hands tied in the back. Can you? Then make a topic on how to do it.
Here’s my question for Spider:
Why can’t I edit a single relationship by clicking it in my current graphic view? Why must I go to the activity properties and find the link between all activity links?.
I’m one voice more claiming for a Spider category in Planning Planet. I hope Mike hears us. - 0Rafael Davila ·Carlos,
What can Spider Do that your Tool can’t?
Isn’t it a valid question, remember we are confined to this posting? Does it means we will be forced to a single question, a single thread forever?
I have no other place to go and ask questions about Spider. Please be patient maybe, eventually Spider will have its place and this monstruous topic will be thing of the past, and issues will be easier to follow. Mike gave us hope as well as other PP moderators, is just that it takes time. For the moment we were asked to keep here and limit our reference to Spider on other topics.
About your question on not being able to edit a single relationship by clicking on my current graphic view I am not experiencing this issue, if you refer to clicking on the bars. Or do you refer to clicking on a bar and moving the cursor to another bar to create a new link? This you can also do.
Some fields are locked in your activity pane, I suspect to protect the traceability of updates and integrity of the data, same at other screens, is this your issue?
Mike,
Can we create other topics specific on Spider Project? Under which category?
Best regards,
Rafael - 0Vladimir Liberzon ·Hi Carlos,
thank you for reminding the topic purpose.
I really hope to learn something new or that something useful is missed in Spider Project besides simulating human behavior. And questions like I need to model this and don’t know if it is possible will be appreciated.
If you want to edit link properties just draw this link once more (and you will see link properties) or open activity properties as you suggested. Our projects usually include too many links crossing the screen. That is why we selected other ways.
Best Regards,
Vladimir - 0Rafael Davila ·John,
I could not find your info under PP directory search but found it at MPI site.
In your posting 251 you wrote, “In my industrial experience we used Micro Planner X-Pert as the selected planning software for over twenty years.... The Micro Planner X-Pert software tool we used was excellent, ...”
Do you have the option to select other vendors scheduling software at Micro Planning to develop your own scheduling software, if so which?
Best regards,
Rafael - 0Vladimir Liberzon ·John,
you wrote: At that company there was also MS Project for those that wanted to use a MS product.
Does it mean that "that company" had no corporate project management system? If PMs select any software they want to use and use them as they want, projects do not belong to the corporate portfolio, etc. the corporate system could not function.
Best Regards,
Vladimir - 0Vladimir Liberzon ·John,
do they still use Micro Planner X-Pert for project and portfolio management?
I don’t understand corporate PM system with the renegades that are outside of it.
What do you call customer focused projects? I think that all projects are customer focused.
Did you manage organization resources and costs in your corporate system? Did you create plans for the organization departments? - 0Rafael Davila ·Vladimir,
Under Suretrak, for my non leveling resources it is not uncommon for me to assign a resource lag and resource duration different from activity duration. This I use when I want to model cash flow (costs and income).
How you model this within Spider Project and how it works under resource leveling?
By the way I don’t know how it would work under SureTrak resource leveling.
Best regards,
Rafael - 0Vladimir Liberzon ·Rafael,
we do not permit this.
We teach our customers than an activity shall be executed by some resource team from the beginning to the end. If the planned`number of necessary resources is different at different parts of activity then divide it - it is not the same work.
But we permit to assign uncertain number of resources, like between 3 and 5. If three are available then an activity can start, if others will become available before activity finish they can join and accelerate activity performance.
If you will suggest an example where it can be useful we will add this function. Until then create two activities with FS strong link.
Best Regards,
Vladimir - 0Rafael Davila ·Vladimir,
I believe I can handle all my physical resources the way you suggest, I forgot about strong links, functionality that was not available in Primavera SureTrak. Please understand I am still not wired to think on it as an available tool for my schedules, it is not available everywhere on CPM literature. Don’t be surprised if you have to remind me of it a few several times again.
The remaining issue is about modeling cash flow in all your activities where cash income and expense payments will lag activity execution. Here I don’t want to create a new activity for every one impacting BOQ modeling for income and maybe another one for modeling actual payments or expenses. Here we pay payroll on a weekly basis, invoices on 30 days after receipt and with luck get our BOQ payment 30 to 60 days after activity execution in private jobs, about Government jobs you would be surprised how much latter we get paid, “prompt payment” is a fantasy here.
Probably a SS/FS lag and duration (if you want it to be different) can be defined at cost assigments as not to mess with resource allocations but making costs to follow resource allocation dates within the rule. In this way for example you can model payment 2 weeks after an activity finishes. Of course Earned Value will have o lag and will follow activity duration.
Best regards,
Rafael - 0Vladimir Liberzon ·Rafael,
we always create separate activities for payments.
If it is regular (once in a week for an example) then an activity may have special calendar/week like one work hour on Monday where payments are actually done. This activity may be set as hammock from the start to the finish of some set of works and you define cost per hour as planned payments per week. Actual payments may differ.
If you are paid for some result with 30 days lag then it is an activity with zero duration but certain cost.
Usually all payments activities in one of the structures belong to the same phase.
It is not necessary to show payment activities in all structures. They may be hidden and will not appear on the reports in one WBS but will be seen and considered in calculations in another WBS.
We suggest to create separate cost components for payments. The cost of one unit for payment components shall be negative.
In this case you will get separate reports on expenses, payments and cash flows, you will know who owns to whom and what amounts.
As expenses, payments (and incomes) may consist of components (payments for materials, payments to contractors, payments for machines, etc.).
Best Regards,
Vladimir - 0Rafael Davila ·Vladimir,
In order to set the hammock you need to know in advance which activities or portion of each is to be applied on each payment on your always changing activity dates prediction.
I am looking for the software to estimate the cash flow without telling the specific activities that will fall within each particular period.
Best regards,
Rafael - 0Vladimir Liberzon ·Rafael,
maybe I did not understand your requirements.
I understood this way:
You pay people salaries from their first to their last job in the project. You don’t know when these jobs will happen but know for what jobs you will pay.
The same with machines - you will pay from the start of their usage to the end of their usage.
And the payments do not depend on the actual work that they do.
Correct me if my understanding is wrong.
Best Regards,
Vladimir - 0Vladimir Liberzon ·Thank you, John.
I just do not understand how to manage project portfolio and organization resources if some project managers use one PM software and some renegades decided to use another. In the portfolio all projects are interdependent when use common resources even if their activities are not linked.
So it is impossible to plan one project ignoring others.
How did you solve this problem?
Best Regards,
Vladimir - 0Rafael Davila ·Vladimir,
Not only will pay a few per completed jobs/task/activities but others will be paid on a regular basis say next week for payroll, next 30 days for invoices and receive BOQ payments 60 days after invoicing prior month during first week of the following month.
Of course I do not pretend exact granularity but an approximation good enough to make a computation for NPV that is close enough, a computation that will tell me months in green and months in red, I don’t think I need to model exact payment day. Anyway it is never going to be exactly on target especially the further away from today.
I am starting to get hooked not only into BOQ, but I am also thinking ahead when I might start using NPV available in Spider Project. As far as I remember you also mentioned IIR, internal rate of return, a computation that at times yields two values, one is the solution and the other is not, and even “modified” IRR so it is more than that. But "that", modeling of BOQ is going to be a common issue.
Hope you understand if others at home are to follow me it cannot be that complicated, otherwise they will do their cash flow analysis using Excel, even when is kind of static, not as dynamic when modeling into Spider Project.
Here on average, the Water Authority pays 3 to 6 months after invoicing, meanwhile you have to pay US equipment suppliers in advance to manufacturing. Banks and Sureties know and expect your cash flow shows this. Spider Project table reports can show the required details, just give me ease of use with regard to the offset between the resources (and activities) to cash flow.
Best regards,
Rafael - 0Vladimir Liberzon ·It can be modeled but it is not easy. But I am not sure that in Excel it will be easier.
Let’s exchange the examples in Spider Project Demo. It will become much more clear for both of us.
With reference-books with consumption norms BOQ modelling is not too complicated.
Best Regards,
Vladimir - 0Rafael Davila ·Vladimir,
Your handling of the calendar along with the hammock activity is sheer genius.
Your creation of the hammock is cheating.
a) You cannot create a hammock linked to a single activity with no other software I know of.
b) You cannot use lag in hammock activities with no other software I know of, it is simply disregarded.
My next dog is to be named LAG.
Best regards,
Rafael
P.S. Yes it works well for me. - 0Raphael M. Dua ·Rafaela
I have just placed a two week lag on the link between my Task and end and the Hammock has correctly calculated the duration as I would expect from Micro Planner X-Pert
Oh dear Oh Dear
Never ever be as dogmatic to say No other software does it
Keep telling you I was the pioneer to much of the computations and facilities which people like Vlad have been able to find on the public and other domains and use
in their products
I know most of them, especially in the past twenty years haven’t a clue where they got the knowledge from, but when they ask, I have .. so far ... dragged out my OLD OLD OLD workings from back as far as 1957 and Lo and behold, we were doing what ever back them
It is Christmas, you should be eating Christmas pie not H ..... pie
I am back to work again
Such fun :-)
Raf - 0Raphael M. Dua ·Vlad
In your reply to John Cornish
You are making an assumption that ALL portfolio projects used the corporate resources
Well here in Micro Planner land I am running a whole range of projects for ONE client (who is also using P3, P6, OPP, MSP) all the results from each project are shunted up to the corporate Financial System via a product called COBRA, which takes the results from each of the project management software packages and up loads it into FMIS (which is a massive Government based accounting and payment and all things to all men product)- I assume that you use XML methodologies which is how we do it
None of my projects ever uses any body from another project’s resources. Each Project, whilst part of the Portfolio, is not necessarily resource dependent upon another.
If we do have related resource projects then obviously they are run in a single Model using one or another of the software packages which are available.
We use a WBS of fragnets as we did back in 1956-60 for the Polaris project for our COBRA upload
Hope that makes things clear
Raf
- 0Vladimir Liberzon ·Raphael,
in my experience projects in the portfolios are frequently linked. These links may include dependencies between activities of different projects and resources that are used in more than one project.
Calculating portfolio schedule we shall take project interdependencies into consideration.
I did not write about financial side though again - if the financing is limited then portfolio schedule shall take it into account.
So there is a need to calculate the schedule for the whole portfolio model that may consist of thousands separate projects.
Best Regards,
Vladimir
- 0Rafael Davila ·Vladimir,
Mike mentioned a few weeks ago he is to start working on the planning for a County Roads or Public Works Division; he is to schedule hundreds of maintenance jobs for a few years horizon, I believe he mentioned three years. He needs to plan ahead because of the many required permits required before a bucket of asphalt can be placed, all sharing the limited equipment owned by the county.
I must assume his software can handle hundreds of jobs on a single portfolio, perhaps 324 jobs if he is to schedule 2 road maintenance jobs per week for three years, each a mere 70 task per job would yield 22,680 tasks.
I would never consider software that cannot handle twice these requirements to be on the safe side, it would be a shame if in the middle of the job we find out the software I recommended runs out of capacity, seems like Asta Power Project can handle this, same as many software on the market, can Spider Project also? Can you tell me the limits on the amount of jobs a single portfolio can handle, same with the number of tasks?
Let’s talk not thousands of separate projects, just a few hundreds, a few shared resources; this seems to me like an everyday scheduling need.
Best regards,
Rafael - 0Vladimir Liberzon ·Rafael,
I did not meet Spider Project limits.
Five years ago the levelling of 270 000 activities project on the computer with 1GB of Memory and Windows XP took 4.5 minutes. It took much longer (about half an hour) on another notebook with 256 Mb of memory because of swapping. Now computers are faster though Operating Systems require more memory.
It may take longer if the projects have complex resource assignments but still reasonable time. The scheduling is of course much faster (measured in seconds).
Romtelecom at last PMI COS conferece presented management of their 2000 projects portfolio.
I tried test runs (scheduling, levelling, cost calculations) with million activities in the portfolio - still works without known problems.
Some single projects like construction of plants, dams, ships consist of more than 40 000 activities.
So don’t worry. If you will have even more RAM memory than 1Gb you will be able to calculate huge programs fast enough.
Best Regards,
Vladimir - 0Rafael Davila ·Vladimir,
For your knowledge, I am starting to use Corporate Reference Books. It worked fine for my transfer of resource definitions and assignments from my sample job with my resource loading into your file modeling payments but without my resources.
Because previously I had an unpleasant experience with P3 when linking the database to a spreadsheet using ODBC Btrive drivers to the point it locked the software and I had to reformat the hard disk and re install everything I will explore this functionality to see if something like this can happen. Up to now not even intentionally it has allowed me neither to corrupt the data files nor to lock the software.
If I cannot find a way to corrupt the database nor to lock the software with this functionality it will not be of my occasional use but of frequent use as it is by far more functional than just linking to an external spreadsheet.
I read in spider Help you can set up a four characters code for your users, this includes the alphabet and special symbols, so in theory if 40 possibilities per character yields over 2.5 million users (40x40x40x40), is this correct? And what about concurrent users, how many is the theoretical and the practical limit? Can it be as long as there is a record available, not still locked?
Best regards,
Rafael - 0Vladimir Liberzon ·Rafael,
I don’t think that you will meet any problems with the reference-books. They are used in Spider Project from the very first release in 1993 and never caused problems for Spider users. They may be created from the Excel spreadsheet but then become internal.
I don’t remember about four characters. Actually Spider Project has no limitations on any code length.
Spider Project uses the model of group work when the database is replicated in accordance with Responsibility structure and can be updated at any moment collecting current data from the unlimited number of project users. I don’t know the limits, we never met problems with this. But actually there are moderate number of people that work with the same models. I don’t remember the customer who has more than two thousands projects in one portfolio and more than several hundred users that work together with the same model.
Best Regards,
Vladimir - 0Rafael Davila ·
Vladimir,
You are right, it is not limited to four characters but to hundreds, the same as for activity codes. I could not find the limit.
Do you know P3 practical limit for concurrent users? Just as a comparison for my knowledge and the knowledge of my clients.
Best regards,
Rafael - 0Rafael Davila ·Vladimir,
I am creating a filter for out-of-sequence but first need to verify the following formulas I will transfer along with the custom fields with ease using Ref.Books. Are these correct?
It might be that EarlyStart is the correct field to use in formula 5 as might differ with AsapStart when split is allowed or after progress, just could not find the definition/formula for the EarlyStart field.
Best regards,
Rafael - 0Mike Testro ·Hi Gentlemen
I have just started using the PowerProject traffic light symbols where you set up parameters and the light in the column changes colour.
For instance if the formula compares planned end with progress end on any particular task and the spread is 5 to 10 days difference then:
Green = anything up to 5 days
Amber = anything between 5 - 10 days
Red = Anything over 10 days
The symbol shows on any level and with multiple projects so management have a quick and visual reference as to where there may be problems.
It can be set up to show reduction in float if there is no baseline.
Best regards
Mike Testro
- 0Rafael Davila ·Mike,
In Spider Project they are called signals, I am not there yet but will be looking on how to set them green when our little frogs start singing.
Cells in the user fields can be marked with markers of various colors and shapes; this notifies the user that various values in the given field get in certain intervals. A set of intervals, to each of which a certain color is appointed, is called Signal
This functionality is also available in MS Project as well as in many others.
If you set a marker for every possible range then it is too much, better assign a marker to a couple of ranges to be highlighted, otherwise by highlighting everything the purpose is lost. Combine shapes as to differentiate, not just colors, also consider using a few columns for your markers to make it easy to search your ranges.
Best regards,
Rafael
P.S. My personal HP Laserjet is color blind, only knows B&W. - 0Rafael Davila ·Vladimir,
I am buying a new PC, therefore I am interested into knowing how compatible Spider Project is with Windows 7 Pro 32 Business.
I am ruling out Windows 7 Pro 64 but would like to know also about it. I understand some hardare drivers for a 64 bit operating system can create issues and wonder about the HASP key, though believe this should not be an issue.
Best regards,
Rafael - 0Augustin Purnus ·Rafael,
From my experience, changing a working Windows version which a new one without knowing its behavior is very challenging. It will give you nothing else than time consuming. When I changed my computer it came with Vista. It was a disaster, and therefore I downgrade the system to XP. I am happy with it.
I think Vladimir will tell you there is no issue, or it will be solved fast.
I wonder what other challenges did you find for Spider Project.
Best regards,
Augustin
- 0Rafael Davila ·Augustin Purnus
I followed your advice for looking into Reference Books, I thought it was merely for job templates and found it is much more powerful and safer than using OBDC to connect to the database.
Because it is so powerful it ramifications are many, you can even use it to control user access down to the individual field level; for the moment I will skip this part on users’ access and continue with other applications for the Reference Books.
Then I will explore the Portfolio functionality and will eventually have a few questions related to shared resource allocation and project updating under a portfolio.
In the in-between if you can give me some hints about the new switch activity I would appreciate it as the English Help for this functionality is lagging a few months of updates and could not find an English paper on it at the Spider Site. I understand this is just the start as this functionality will be further expanded, some fun with it will do no harm.
Best regards,
Rafael
- 0Vladimir Liberzon ·Hi Rafael,
we use Spider Project with Windows 7 at our office and did not meet problems yet. Spider Project also works without problems with Windows simulators for MACs and Linux.
I do not expect problems but let us know if you will meet any.
Switch activities will be improved soon. Now you can manually decide if it is in position Yes or No and depending on this position different network branches will be used. Later Yes or No will be calculated basing on user defined conditions. I expect that these improvements will become available in February.
Reference-books permit to set corporate standards, rules, pools, and a lot more. I just cannot imagine how PM corporate system can be implemented without norms and standards.
Best Regards,
Vladimir - 0Rafael Davila ·Vladimir or Augiustin
I can use Reference Books to transfer links (precedence/activity links) from a table. What if I want to use the Reference Books to erase these links, can it be done? In this way I can toggle on and off unlimited combinations of links to perform what if analysis for my links.
Does it make sense to you?
Best regards,
Rafael
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