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Displaying WBS of another task in task name Microsoft Project

Displaying WBS of another task in task name Microsoft Project

Displaying WBS of another task in task name

Posted: 06 Oct 2004 03:22 AM PDT

I know this doesn't answer your question directly but perhaps a shift in
thinking about the project structure would render the problem moot. The
classic definition of a project's phases includes Initiation, Planning,
Execution, Control, and Closeout (though I personally tend to think of
Execution and Control to be two interwoven and interacting process streams
within the same phase of the project). Thus Project Initiation is not a
single activity, although crossing a go/no-go decision point would certainly
be shown in the plan as a single milestone task, but initiation itself is a
broad phase, represented by a summary task with potentially many additional
subtasks underneath it. I would say your presentation and the other
"aritfacts" are *components* of the Project Initiation phase as a whole, not
something that comes before it. Thus phase 1 in toto would be Project
Initiation. Early in the phase you're preparing the business case,
feasibility studies, early schedule and budget estimates, supporting
documents, etc. At the end of initiation there would be a milestone marking
the decision to proceed and you'd continue on to the Planning Phase where
you prepare the detailed project plan, including the schedule and working
budget and define the other management and controlling processes that will
be used in carrying out the project. When the plan and all its components
and supporting documentation is completed, you pass another milestone
marking the transition from project planning into the project execution
phase.
--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer/Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs

"Michael" <com> wrote in message
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how can you display initials allocated to a resource

Posted: 06 Oct 2004 02:29 AM PDT

Hi Jonathan,

I think you then have to select which column to insert - in this case it
wouild be the Resource Initials field. But that won't show up in the
Ganttbar without doing as I suggested.

Mike Glen
Project MVP


Jonathan Yong wrote: 

Where can I get Microsoft Project 2003 viewer freeware?

Posted: 06 Oct 2004 12:27 AM PDT

Hi Siva,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-)

Please see FAQ Item: 16. Project Viewer.

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: http://www.mvps.org/project/

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on :-)

Mike Glen
Project MVP

Siva Prasad Kuppala wrote:

Unit Allocation

Posted: 05 Oct 2004 01:03 PM PDT

Can you be more specific? Project doesn't just arbitrarily change
assignments. What are you doing or editing when you see the change? What
are the task types you have set and what fields have you manually input for
them before assigning resources? How are you going about making the
assignments?
--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer/Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs


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Change resource assignments Auto / leveling

Posted: 05 Oct 2004 12:53 PM PDT

Hi tball,

You may even ask it a third time, the answer will still be no, sorry :-)

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Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
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Can I set up an autodelete for completed tasks in Gantt view?

Posted: 05 Oct 2004 10:53 AM PDT

But you still run into what sorts of tasks and activities each is optimized
to do.

--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer/Consultant
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.Net Framework 1.0 vs. 1.1 on client?

Posted: 05 Oct 2004 09:19 AM PDT

Project server does that.

-Jack


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Pasting from Excel into Project 2003

Posted: 05 Oct 2004 09:12 AM PDT

Yep - you're right. One of those odd ball fields.

--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer/Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs


"JackD" <momokuri@gmail> wrote in message
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Re-using old MPP files

Posted: 05 Oct 2004 07:54 AM PDT

Try removing any actual dates and progress on the tasks.

-Jack


"Phil" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Summary tasks adding work

Posted: 05 Oct 2004 06:41 AM PDT

No resources existed on summary task. What I just did was to outdent detail
tasks - that made Work editable on old summary - changed work to zero and
then indented detail again. Now summary task reflects the proper work.

Thanks for reply.

"Jan De Messemaeker" wrote:
 

TOTAL COST COLUMN (IN TASK USAGE VIEW)

Posted: 05 Oct 2004 05:18 AM PDT

Hi John

Thanks for your answer. Not sure if it will help
though. Let me explain rather what we are trying to do
here. (Perhaps I shouldn't have asked about Overtime
Rate, because I don't think this field is going to help
me anyway)

In the task view the total cost column is giving me
answers for the standard rate x by hours worked in Rands
(we have worked out a cost rate and a charge out rate for
each resource and from that we want to work out %
profitability).

- Task usage view only shows total cost column (our
standard rate which is our cost rate x by number of hours
worked)
- I want to add in another column which will show me
total revenue (our charge out rate x by number of hours
worked) and then;
- I want to add in another column which will show me
Revenue less cost and then;
- I want to add in another column which will show me %
profit.

I can do all this using custom fields in the resource
sheet, but I want to see the cost at a task level not at
a resource level.

In the past we have been copying from Task usage sheet
into excel template which has all the formulas in it, but
it seems silly to do it that way when MS Project carrys
these fields and fields can be customised.

I'll go back and try your suggestions though. Please
investigate further for me.

Kind regards

Adele 
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need help asap

Posted: 04 Oct 2004 02:02 PM PDT

Hi Ashley,

Inserting Projects into a master only provides a common view on tasks, it
does not consolidate resources.
To consolidate resources you need to connect the projects to a resource
pool.
Lookup the help on resource sharing or resource pools.
HTH

--
Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
http://users.online.be/prom-ade/index.htm
32-495-300 620
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Leveling How To

Posted: 01 Oct 2004 09:13 PM PDT

See my other reply on to you on this topic. From a strictly computational
standpoint, perhaps your problem appears simple. Actually it is not simple
at all. From a business context standpoint it is a highly complex problem
that goes beyond the ability of any software to resolve. That's why humans
are still in the loop. Just because Bill is only being used 50% on task X
and isn't assigned anything else in the project that day and you sure could
stand to have that task done sooner, doesn't automatically mean you can
increase him to 100%. There are many other strategies possible in addition
to simply bumping up his assignment and only a human expert - that's you -
can know which of them is the optimum and which just aren't possible to do
in this specific case. Even finishing the project in the shortest possible
time isn't always the best business strategy. Would you take resources
away from a product rollout intended for this year's Christmas shopping
season in order to shorten the development time on a project creating a
product intended to be introduced for NEXT year's Christmas season and would
be done by next September without the increased resources anyway?

--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer/Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs


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