Quick-start Guide No. 2 – Build Your Schedule
June 5, 2019
Basics to Build a NetPoint Schedule This guide shares how to add, link, and modify objects. Simply click an object icon and drop it on the canvas. To add logic,...
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Publications
Quick-start Guide No. 1 – Set Up Your Canvas
June 5, 2019
Setting the Timescale & Planning Canvas Area NetPoint is a graphic planning tool with real-time calculation based on the tie between object location on the planning canvas and the date....
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Keynote – Early and Late “P80” Dates
April 23, 2019
The CPM algorithm’s ability to develop bounding early/late dates using activity durations and logic was a new scheduling paradigm that has sustained CPM as the scheduling method of choice since...
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Developing the Annual Plan, A Project Manager’s Perspective
April 23, 2019
As project managers, we are often asked to forecast an annual plan of current and requested projects. Not only does this task involve developing a cost estimate and project timeline,...
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How Innovation & Fundamentals Impact the Evolution of Planning & Scheduling for Capital Projects
April 23, 2019
Innovations in technology, teaming, project delivery, and owner expectations require changes in capital project scheduling. This presentation describes how NetPoint integrates schedule communication; project controls implementation, and risk mitigation with...
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Airport Screening & Equipment Procurement Logistics, Complex Problems Solved by NetPoint
April 23, 2019
Scott and Mike show the use of NetPoint with P6 on the procurement sequence of the master schedule for owner-furnished equipment at a multi-billion-dollar airport project. As a communication tool,...
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Wave Transfer Planning, Strategies to Transfer Manufacturing Operations to a Newly Build International Pharmaceutical Facility
April 23, 2019
Initiating manufacturing operations in a newly built pharmaceutical facility is a demanding process for any organization. Here the technology transfer team is responsible for both assuring that the facilities meet...
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Introducing NetRisk 2.0, Not Just Another Risk Analysis Tool
April 23, 2019
At its core, NetRisk 2.0 is still a Monte Carlo-based schedule risk-analysis tool for simulating CPM and GPM schedules from NetPoint and Primavera P6, but it offers many innovative features...
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How NetPoint Completed a 4-hour Meeting in 40 Minutes
April 23, 2019
Analyzing exhaustive, complex schedules has always been overwhelming for non-schedulers. Using NetPoint, Reniz Moosa was able to distill a 46-page, P6, commissioning schedule for a $400 million tissue paper manufacturing...
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End Node Diagrams, Making Sense of Schedule Risk Criticality
April 16, 2019
Determining the potential criticality of each activity is a key result from the project schedule’s Monte Carlo simulation. Activity criticality is used to identify the probabilistic critical and near critical-paths....
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