Do you always use the XER file to import/export projects? Have you noticed global calendars listed that you did not create? Attend this webinar to learn the functionality differences between the XER and XML file formats. You'll learn why to use one format over the other to export and import data out of or into P6.

1. What is XER
2. What Is XML
3. What information do you get from each file format, XML and XER
4. How to control global data
5. Where to find more information

Please join us for this brief but information packed webinar to learn about XML and XER files for P6 data exchange.

CDP Senior Consultant, Elizabeth May has over 17 years industry experience including Construction Project Management, Project Management Software Training, and implementing Project Controls solutions. She has helped many companies improve their use of Project Management Software Solutions. Elizabeth is well versed in many Project Management software packages.

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Please join us for this dynamic, fast-paced webinar to learn how Spectrum Job Cost Accounting can improve your company's efficiencies. Spectrum is a modern and complete software platform developed for all types of contractors to run all aspects of their business. Spectrum offers mobile capabilities that provide a bridge from the field to the office and back and is accessible anytime and anywhere.

Join us to see how Spectrum can eliminate redundant and inefficient activities:

1. Eliminate double entry with real time data capture in the field
2. Critical project information and analytics including unprocessed payroll and commitments
3. Reduce cycle time with AP routing while eliminating paper
4. Eliminate DropBox, FTP, and VPN sites with integrated Document Control for internal and external users
5. Quickly identify, capture and manage all change orders through to execution

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Please join us for this dynamic, fast-paced webinar to learn how to use your project schedule to reduce claims. During the webinar, Elizabeth May will discuss methods and best practices of creating and maintaining your project schedule to protect against claims.

We will review the origin of claims, and the important processes to utilize in order to reduce your exposure.

We will review in-detail the scheduling practices that are used to help:

• Create a project schedule
• Monitor potential risk
• Update project schedules to reflect current project status
• Avoid claims with best scheduling practices

CDP Senior Consultant Elizabeth May has over 17 years of industry experience including construction project management, project management software training, and implementing project controls solutions. She has helped many companies improve their use of project management software solutions. Elizabeth is well-versed in many project management software packages.

Please join us for this dynamic, fast-paced webinar and earn a Professional Development Hour (PDH) after attending. During the webinar, Michael M. Hughes, PE will illustrate how various activity constraints affect Critical Path Method (CPM) schedules.

The most commonly used constraint is “Start on or After” which is often used when a piece of equipment (or construction material or component) required for a task will not be available until a certain date; however, there are six other activity constraints that are commonly available. This webinar will highlight each of them and illustrate the profound effects they can have on the CPM calculated dates for a project.

The learning objectives for the webinar are:

Please join us for this dynamic, fast-paced webinar and earn one professional development hour (PDH) after attending. During the webinar, Michael M. Hughes, PE will illustrate how the Critical Path Method (CPM) calculates project schedules from the list of activities and their relationships. The Critical Path is the sequence of project network activities that determines the longest overall project duration. CPM identifies those activities and calculates the project completion date.

The learning objectives for the webinar are:

If you need to reach customers, building owners, property managers to get more opportunities, this is the webinar for you. Spectrum CRM helps commercial contractors quickly and easily win more jobs by combining construction specific CRM, lead management, bid tracking, proposal generation, customizable follow-up plans, drip campaigns, branded email marketing all in one, integrated, easy-to-use, affordable web-based solution.

Most companies use multiple systems to manage, track, market, and communicate to their customers and prospects. TopBuilder CRM is an all-inclusive sales and marketing platform that allows you to accomplish all of this in a single platform that’s easy and affordable to use. TopBuilder will help you to build closer relationships with your customers, and sell more to your prospects.

Join us for a brief overview of Spectrum CRM proposal creating and see how it can help you automate your sales and marketing efforts. Topics we will cover:

Spectrum CRM helps commercial contractors win more jobs quickly by combining construction specific CRM with lead management, bid tracking, proposal generation, follow-up plans, drip marketing campaigns, and newsletter email marketing. This is an all-in-one integrated, easy-to-use, and affordable web-based solution.

A majority of companies manually create proposals on the fly, and these proposals lack consistency in format because proposals are created by different people. Spectrum CRM makes it easy to design, build, send, and track your proposals in a consistent manner to produce professional grade proposals every time. Proposal templates utilize industry best practices that include your company’s proposal language and graphics that will set you apart from your competition.

Join us for a brief overview of how to create proposals in Spectrum CRM to see how it can help you automate your sales and marketing efforts.

This webinar will cover how to:

Have you had a need to capture cost for coordination and oversight work in a P6 schedule? Would you like this cost to be decreased as work progresses on the project?

This webinar will provide a specific example of setting up a coordination & oversight activity in a P6 schedule. The example will review how a WBS Summary activity with assignments is initially planned. It will then review an option to maintain the cost of the assignments or to adjust the assignments automatically as the schedule changes.

What you will learn:

• Describe the WBS Summary activity type
• Review the duration types 'Fixed Duration & Units' and 'Fixed Duration & Units/Time'
• Compare duration type impact in planning a schedule
• Compare duration type impact on an in progress activity

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Please join us for this dynamic, fast-paced webinar and earn a free PDH after attending. During the webinar Michael M. Hughes, PE will illustrate how the Critical Path Method (CPM) calculates project schedules from the list of activities and their relationships. The Critical Path is the sequence of project network activities that determines the longest overall project duration. CPM identifies those activities and calculates the Project Completion Date.

The Learning Objectives for the webinar are:

1. Describe the Critical Path Method for Scheduling
2. Learn the Methodology of Calculating the Forward and Backward Pass
3. Learn to Calculate a Schedule and Total Float
4. Understand How Activities that do not have a Predecessor or Successor (Open Ends) are treated in the CPM Calculation

CDP Senior Consultant, Michael M. Hughes, PE has over 35 years industry experience including consulting engineering, land development, construction, project management, and municipal services. Immediately prior to joining CDP, Michael served as the Assistant Engineer Manager, City of Durham Department of Public Works. In that capacity, he was a leader and visionary and led the effort to automate the Project Management delivery system.

In this online event, Hard Dollar and CDP will demonstrate how the HD real-time integration with Primavera allows you to make changes that instantly update budgets and schedules, saving calculation time and increasing project accuracy. See how HardDollar + Primavera P6:

• Create detailed, accurate, cost-loaded schedules
• React to schedule changes immediately
• Easily move tasks from estimate to schedule

What you'll learn:

• How to bring detailed cost, scope, and time together
• Impact of real-time cost implications of schedule on cash flow
• Creation of 'what if' scenarios to mitigate cost impact of labor or resource scheduling changes

Who should attend:

• CFOs, CIOs
• VPs of Project Controls, Finance, or Procurement
• Senior Estimators
• Planners, Schedulers

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