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Setting Default Cost Rate Table Microsoft Project

Setting Default Cost Rate Table

Posted: 07 Oct 2004 09:45 AM PDT

Thanks Steve!

"Steve House [MVP]" wrote:
 

Project 2003 is missing network diagram layout options (like Hori.

Posted: 07 Oct 2004 08:05 AM PDT

Hi,

In the Network diagram, via Format, Layout, check "Allow Manual Box
Positioning"
HTH

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Weird Fixed Duration Calculation!

Posted: 07 Oct 2004 03:51 AM PDT

As Jan said, probably a bug. But if you leave out manually entering the
duration, and just put in the assignment units and the work required it will
calculate duration correctly.

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How do I identify existing schedule conflicts in MS project

Posted: 06 Oct 2004 08:15 PM PDT

If by schedule conflicts you mean resources being double booked, just go
look for the red names on the resource sheet. Red means they're
overallocated, which means that at some point in the project they're booked
to be doing more work than their maximum allowed usage. Usually this means
you've put them to be in two places at once, ie, working on two or more
concurrent tasks that should require their full attention each. To identify
the specifc areas of conflict, switch to one of the usage views and use the
[Alt][F5] hotkey to jump from overallocation to overallocation. Look for
work hours in red.
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"Garry Collins" <Garry microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Dumb question start date

Posted: 06 Oct 2004 03:37 PM PDT

You are welcome.

-Jack


"Terrell Miller" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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project management courseware

Posted: 06 Oct 2004 02:32 PM PDT

Sybex's book "IT Project + Study Guide" by Heldman and Cram is a good
overview, esepcially if you're in the IT industry. It's oriented toward
preparing for the Comptia certification exam but still is a good general
discussion of PM principles with application regardless of the industry
you're in. Element K Press has courseware available to prep for both the
Comptia IT Project + and the PMP exams that could be useful as well, albeit
somewhat limited in scope. All of these require between 5 to 10 class days
to deliver the material. Element K also has courseware for a 1-day "Project
Management Fundamentals" course but it is very light-weight in my opinion.
As a preliminary day before 2 or 3 days training on MS Project it's ok but
about all it really does is expose the students to some basic vocabulary and
general PM concepts.

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MS Project Trainer/Consultant
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"need help" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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True Consulting Cost/Benefit

Posted: 06 Oct 2004 02:05 PM PDT

Thank you. That is what I think I am looking for and I will give it a try.

"Steve House [MVP]" wrote:
 

How do I manage/balance resources where one reasource is leading .

Posted: 06 Oct 2004 02:05 PM PDT

I'd do it like this. It sounds like resource 2 is supervising while
resource 1 is actually doing the work. When the supervisor is actively
interacting with the worker he can't be doing something else but on the
whole watching over this task is only going to occupy a portion of his
workday. Estimate how much time is going to be consumed by his oversight
duties, for illustration lets say he's going to spend about 1 hour per day
coaching the worker actually doing the task.

Enter the task, 2 day duration, and assign the full-time resource actually
doing the work to it 100%. Make the task non-effort driven for the moment.
Assign the supervisor at 12% - this represents him spending about 1/8 of his
workday doing whatever he does related to this task leaving him free for 7
hours a day to be elsewhere.

Another possibility. Resource 2 needs to be there to get resource 1 up and
running but then his work is done and resource 1 can continue on by himself
to finish the task. For illustration, figure it's going to take 1 hour to
get the worker doing the task up to speed. Enter the task, again with a 2
day duration and assign Resource 1 to it 100%. Split the screen. In the
bottom window assign Resource 2 with 1 hour of work, effort 100%. This
indicates when he's there he's there full-time but it is only for one hour
of the total task time. For that one hour he can't be anywhere else without
being overallocated but after that he's free to be assigned elsewhere. If
you really need to do it, the Resource Schedule form in the bottom window
would even allow you to specify just WHEN his one hour of work would occur.

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"TecMan" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Empty lines at end of schedule

Posted: 06 Oct 2004 12:49 PM PDT


Peggy,
Nothing comes to mind at the moment but you could try a brute force
approach. Select all the desired tasks and copy them to a new project.
Unless there is something funny going on with your printer settings,
there must be some extraneous data in the file that should be eliminated
with a copy/paste.

Or, here's another suggestion. Try saving the file as a Project database
and then opening it up again. Maybe during all the tweaking you did to
the file, some corruption crept in and this method might just help.

You might also try the MVP webpage at:
http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm
and look at FAQ 43 - file bloat? - might be corruption

If no one else jumps in with other suggestions and neither of the above
helps, if you can, send me the file via e-mail and I'll take a look at
it. If it contains sensitive information I can provide you a macro that
will desensitize it or you can go to Jack Dahlgren's website (Jack is
another MVP) at: http://masamiki.com/project/macros.htm
and look for his "scrub" macro. It does basically the same thing. If you
send the file, be sure to zip it.

Hope this helps.
John

MSProject: Allow durations in years and also calendar months.

Posted: 06 Oct 2004 10:45 AM PDT

Only trouble is that screws up your work values. With the default calendars
there are 8 working hours in a duration day but 24 working hours in an
elapsed day.

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Problem with Updating Actual Work

Posted: 06 Oct 2004 10:04 AM PDT

Hi,

How would Project know when your updates are complete and it can shift the
remaining work?
You have to tellit "go"
There is a button on the tracking toolbar to do it so it doesn't take much
time.

HTH

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Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
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Changing number of workdays in a week

Posted: 06 Oct 2004 09:27 AM PDT

Jan,

Thanks for the help !!

/Lars

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Project Flashes and Calculates

Posted: 06 Oct 2004 08:19 AM PDT

Sounds like something else might have used that field in its calcalation.

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Tasks Submitted by Resources

Posted: 06 Oct 2004 07:05 AM PDT

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Rebuild improperly constructed schedule?

Posted: 06 Oct 2004 06:46 AM PDT

Steve -
Thanks for your insight. I misspoke when I said making changes
resulted in "incorrect" dates - what I meant was basically what you
said, that the changes result in different dates. They are 'incorrect'
in the sense that they don't agree with the original start/finish
dates, but I digress.

I'm about to try your baselining suggestion, and I appreciate the tip.

Thanks
Dave


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Trial Version of MS Project 2000 Not working

Posted: 05 Oct 2004 07:15 PM PDT

Hi Andy,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-)

I don't think anyone knows! :( It sounds like a corrupt installation and I
can only suggest you uninstall it, shut down the PC and then re-install
again.

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
MS Project MVP

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