Archive for November, 2008Primavera Error – Privaliged Username PasswordFriday, November 21st, 2008Sometimes when using Primavera or the Primavera Integration API you can get the error mentioned below: UARC Car LaunchThursday, November 20th, 2008Following from the success of last year’s car, the UARC (University of Adelaide Racing Concepts) Team have again portrayed their dedication in the launching the 2008 vehicle last night at the Sporting Car Club of South Australia. Competing in the upcoming Formula SAE event next week, the team hopes to post better placings compared to [...] Australian Dollar TumblesThursday, November 20th, 2008Well another day on the stockmarket saw the Australian Dollar slump to $0.60 USD. Not good. For most individuals all this means is that its going to cost more on that special getaway to Hawaii or they wont be able to buy off US Ebay any more. Earned ScheduleThursday, November 20th, 2008A while back, Walt Lipke wrote a brilliant article on how earned schedule can be applied to a project. Essentially, SPI can be calculated by dividing Planned value into earned Value (EV/PV). However as a project nears completion, EV will approach the value of PV (ie, $1000 / $1000) which results in false SPI and [...] Scheduling and Strategic ForecastsThursday, November 20th, 2008Scheduling is a fairly complex beast. it requires time, effort, dedication and alot of understanding about how the scheduling tool is doing it’s job. What is worse, is that each tool will handle the same situation with slight variations. The forward and backward pass is the mainstay for all scheduling tools. Without the algorithm, we [...] |