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Project should have an colour coding option for task status Microsoft Project

Project should have an colour coding option for task status

Posted: 10 Dec 2004 04:15 AM PST

Hi Matt,

If your work community would be satisfied with Gantt Bars in the RAG status
see:

www.mvps.org/project FAQ #31 for some ideas about customizing Gantt bars
based upon the flag fields.

If you would like to see Graphic indicators for RAG status as part of a
table see Mike Glen's article at:

http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=403

His example uses graphic indicators for cost but you can modify the custom
field to show variance for the Start or Finish fields.

Hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie

"Matt Atkinson" wrote:
 

Can levelling eventually drive one insane? The real question is...

Posted: 09 Dec 2004 02:33 PM PST

Seconding Jack's comments. The only thing leveling does is shift work to
resolve overallocations. It never, ever, tries to use resources to their
fullest extent; the only thing is does is resolve situations where you have
overbooked the resource to do more than they are capable of. If I have Joe
booked for 8 hours on Task A Monday and also for 8 hours on Task B, he's
expected to do 16 hours of work in an 8 hour day and that's impossible.
Leveling will move one of those tasks to Tuesday, assuming the resource is
free. Why doesn't it increase or decrease allocations? Because it doesn't
know why you've booked him at less than the max and doesn't know anything
about the priorities of the business or the project. Maybe there's a very
good reason, like work to be done outside the micro-unicverse of the
project, that means on THAT day he's only available a couple of hours for
project related work. You, the PM, know that when you assign him only 25%
on task X Tuesday even though his overall maximum availability is usually
100%. But Project can't know anything about what else might be going on
with the resource and so it respects your management decision.

MS Project is a glorified calculator, not a manager <grin>.

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Managed Period

Posted: 09 Dec 2004 12:29 PM PST

Andrea --

The "synching up" messages you receive are normal in an environment using
managed time periods. What this means is that the information in the
project plan must be synchronized with the information in PWA. This also
means that you cannot enter Actual Work manually in the Microsoft Project
plan, and that all Actual Work must be submitted by team members using their
PWA timesheet. This is one of the limitations of using managed time
periods, one that frustrates many good people (such as yourself).

Beyond this, I would recommend that you get a book specifically on Project
Server 2003. Click the URL in my signature block for information about
ordering our company's book on the software. Hope this helps.

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Duration value in summary task

Posted: 09 Dec 2004 09:53 AM PST

Tools, Options, Schedule, duration is entered in... hours
HTH

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Is there any way to have a date earlier then 1984 ?

Posted: 09 Dec 2004 09:49 AM PST

Visio will let you do Gantt charts with starting dates as early as 1900 if
that's a help.

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"Denis" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Macro and Report Questions

Posted: 09 Dec 2004 09:09 AM PST

In article <com>,
"joshroberts" <microsoft.com> wrote:
 

Josh,
Jack answered the first question so I'll answer the second. There are
several built-in Reports that show resources and their assignments - Who
does what, Who does what when, To do list and Resource usage. Have you
tried tailoring any of these to get what you want? Another simple option
is to show the Resource Usage view itself and set the timescale to show
days.

If you have looked at all of the above and they just quite give what you
need, perhaps you could be a little more specific. Then we can help
tailor something to fit your need.

Hope this helps.
John

Customizing column to add company name

Posted: 09 Dec 2004 09:07 AM PST

That's a good idea. I'll have to try that and see how it works.
Thanks

"JackD" wrote:
 

Integrating 3 schedules w/diff calendars

Posted: 09 Dec 2004 09:05 AM PST

Hi Connie,

See my reply to your post on 12/8 called "Duplicate Calendars Required"

Julie

"Connie" wrote:
 

Task Dependencies

Posted: 09 Dec 2004 09:01 AM PST

Twenty days negative lag, yes.
HTH

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In Project 2000, how can I change the duration into seconds?

Posted: 09 Dec 2004 08:01 AM PST

You can set it to 24 hours which would translate into 24 minutes.
With a calculated field I think you could possibly do this...

Interesting problem.



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2 questions about task type

Posted: 09 Dec 2004 06:49 AM PST

I tend to think of the task type setting and the effort driven setting as
switches the PM uses to supply the intellegence about what should happen
when a task is edited that Project itself lacks. If I have one guy assigned
to paint a room and add a second guy, the duration should get shorter since
the work is divided between them - effort driven. If I have a meeting and
am adding attendees, the meeting length won't change depending on the number
of people, it certainly won't get shorter at any rate!, so it's non-effort
driven.

Task type - I'm changing Joe from 100% to 50% on a 5 day task he's been
assigned to. Why? Is it because I need him elsewhere 4 hours a day and can
live with the first task taking longer? Fixed work. Or is it because it's
really only 20 man-hours instead of 40 but I don't need it done earlier than
originally planned - fixed duration. In each case, only you know what the
outcome SHOULD be, Project doesn't and can't know. The task type and effort
driven setting let you make sure it does the calculations the way they're
supposed to be.

Steve House [MVP]




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RAG status

Posted: 09 Dec 2004 06:39 AM PST

Hi,

Red, Amber Green.

Try looking in help for Graphical Indicators, they can do just what you are
looking for.

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"Jan De Messemaeker" <jandemes at prom hyphen ade dot be> wrote in message
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Start Date vs. Actual Start Date

Posted: 09 Dec 2004 05:59 AM PST

I know, I've seen some of the articles! But anyone capable of building a
practical model now is totally wasting their talents on something as mundane
as Project Management! LOL

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