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How do you account for asset costs in Project? Microsoft Project

How do you account for asset costs in Project? Microsoft Project

How do you account for asset costs in Project?

Posted: 16 Mar 2005 08:43 PM PST

Steve:
Thanks for your advice and insight. As you can tell, I'm new to Project.
Do you have a reccomendation for accounting for these asset / facility
costs? I could actually do most of the Project functions on Excel which
would of course do the asset accounting, too.

"Steve House [MVP]" wrote:
 

Affect on SPI?

Posted: 16 Mar 2005 11:39 AM PST

Steve,

While I agree with your response, it did not answer my question.

The question is, if a task is marked complete, then more work is added to
the actuals later on, does this affect the SPI.

Regardless of if this should be done, I am asking if the SPI is affected.

Thanks,

Joe

"Steve House [MVP]" wrote:
 

Predecessors & Successors

Posted: 16 Mar 2005 09:50 AM PST

The concept of linking the tasks is primarily of use in Critical Path
Method scheduling. While too involved to go into detail here, it
basically helps you to know what tasks are more important (critical)
time wise, the ones that if they slip in time will result in delaying
the end of your project.
Without linking, you'd be doing what is called event driven scheduling,
creating a list of tasks and checking them off as you to them. This
works fine if you're the only one working on the project, or everyone
knows their part and it's relationship to every one elses. Which is
very rarely the case, even with relatively small projects. Just start
asking for the information you need to create the links, and you'll
find out how "out of sync" or "in sync" people really are.
An analogy might be if you had a car with a stick shift. If you didn't
know what the shift lever was for, you could drive around in first all
the time, and pretty much get where you needed to go. But not very
efficiently time-wise or fuel-wise. And you'd be in big trouble if you
parked face in to a brick wall and didn't know how to use reverse!
So if you don't set up dependencies, you end up with a nice list of
tasks with no meaningful end date. My experience is that as the tasks
slip, and in this envrionment, they usually do, we tell ourselves,
"It's ok, we'll make it up on the next task". And seldom do. Then just
as the project is supposed to finish, it comes as a big surprise that
it's going to be late. Go figure!
Some years ago, when a client company's VP was telling me what he
wanted from me as a consultant, he said he wanted to know why he had so
many "100 day projects that were 100 day projects until day 99". In
other words, to achive disciplined results, you need disciplined
procedures.
I suggest you try it without the links and see how useful it is. Then
try it with the links on a few projects. This will take some effort the
first few times. But my guess is, you'll be amazed at what can happen
if you get the thing out of first gear!
Best of luck.

How do I show the date a task's baseline was set in Project?

Posted: 16 Mar 2005 09:09 AM PST

Thanks,

Unfortunately, as dates slip, WHEN a task was baselined can be controversial
in my organization so manually inputting a date takes away from the integrity
of the plan + NOW it would be nice to know when all those other tasks were
baselined. I will use your solution for future baselines unless I get a
better idea.

Take care-----------john



"Project Slave" wrote:
 

Saving reports generated in Project

Posted: 16 Mar 2005 08:09 AM PST

YES!!! I'd love to dump the report into Excel. It's in an spreadsheet format
and should dump easily. How do I do that?

"RogerBE" wrote:
 

NonWorking time for a resource affecting standard calendar

Posted: 16 Mar 2005 05:25 AM PST

Hi,

Confirming what Julie said: never seen this.

Vacation tasks a stupidity? I wrote an article recommending them, it's on my
Website, and Micrososft published it in the latest Office Newsletter...

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Customising Task Fields

Posted: 16 Mar 2005 03:07 AM PST

Hi

i'm not getting that on your file - i open your file and if i set all your
tasks to 100% completed i get indicators and text without changing anything
else!?!

Cheers
JulieD

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Notes not displayed completely & Text Styles not getting saved

Posted: 16 Mar 2005 02:53 AM PST

Hi Sumit,

Unfortunately I know as good as nothing about Server.
Why not try the Server newsgroup on
microsoft.public.project.server
HTH

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force specific period ending dates in resource usage

Posted: 15 Mar 2005 01:53 PM PST

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


DWeb,
You're welcome. I glad I could be of assistance.

John

Sorting "Who Does What" Report by Start Date

Posted: 15 Mar 2005 12:11 PM PST

In article <com>,
Joseph G. <microsoft.com> wrote:
 

Joseph,
You're welcome. We are here to help and sometimes our experience can
make this go a little faster.

John