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leveling and actuals

Posted: 17 Apr 2005 10:48 PM PDT

Pffft.

I wouldn't know but we will check on that ASAP. Yes, it problably is the
work done on Nonworking hours that is moved by Project. (again negative
comment left out).

we see no solution except changing 600 calenders ;-( that will be a no go
for sure.
Fortunately the totals add up and reports are correct.

This definately is a nice lesson learned:
1. import actuals in MPP files
2. publish, and overwrite actuals (through republish)
3. turn on managed time periodes (cannot be done earlier as then it's not
possible to overwrite/insert past actuals
4. change calenders.

or perhaps PDS but we lack the knowledge.

Thanks


"Jan De Messemaeker" wrote:
 

arrow keys don't move from active cell to adjacent cell

Posted: 17 Apr 2005 01:47 PM PDT

You're welcome, Catherine :-)
We've all been there!

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP





Catherine wrote: 

Project Summary: Can I omit final phase?

Posted: 17 Apr 2005 05:10 AM PDT

Hi Spinner,

I'm not sure what you're after. Any project can show the Project Summary
via Tools/Options.../View tab - at the bottom right. The project summary
measures the working time duration between the start of the first task in
the project to the end of the last task. Equally, all other summaries
measure from the start of its first task the end of its last task. What you
could do is to insert a new task just under the project summary task and
indent all but the last phase, which will give you a summary of the first 6
phases.


Mike Glen
Project MVP





Spinner wrote: 

leveling actuals

Posted: 16 Apr 2005 11:06 AM PDT

Hi,

See my other post.
This makes me absolutely certain it's not "leveling", it's the nonworking
days in the calendar.
People always blame leveling for calculations it never does...
HTH
--
Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
http://users.online.be/prom-ade/
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OT: suggestions on free Gantt software

Posted: 16 Apr 2005 10:03 AM PDT

Inside every 1 year project is a 2 year project bursting to get out!! Inside
a 5 year project is a ........ well it may never finish!

There is a significantly better chance of the project finishing if it was
broken down into 10 six month projects. Each sub-project should deliver some
business value.

--

Rod Gill
Project MVP


"Steve House [Project MVP]" <send.hotmail.com> wrote
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Print Gannt/Entry Table View without numbering the first page only???

Posted: 15 Apr 2005 06:14 PM PDT

Hi abqhusker ,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :)

You could print page 1 and then change the headers and print the rest.
Select the pages to print in the File/Print dialog.

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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Project 2002 weighing subtasks

Posted: 15 Apr 2005 02:22 PM PDT

A fact of life you have to deal with is Project uses duration as its key
metric. Duration is the length of time from when work begins until work
ends. It is not the same thing as work and relates to work by way of the
resource's effort units. When you have a summary tasks with several
subtasks, its duration is from when the earliest subtask begins until when
the latest subtask finshes. As such your weighting of the contribution of
subtasks has no meaning when taken simply as it stands. You can't say that
THIS 10 day task contributes 10% of the duration of the summary while THAT
10 day task constributes 30%. What you can say is that task A requires X
hours of work, Task Y is 1.5X hours of work, Task Z is 3.5X hours of work
etc which gives you ratios I think you're looking for. But the fact that
Task Y contributes 15% of the total work on the summary task does not mean
necessarily that it contributes 15% of the duration of the summary task.
The effort units of the resources assigned, the resource calendars
controlling when each task takes place, and the linking between the various
subtasks will also enter into that equation. For example, it's completely
possible that your 5 subtasks aren't linked sequentially and so will take
place concurrently. If that was the case, the summary task duration is
going to equal the duration of the longest running task, most likely your
Task 5 if all the resources are assigned 100% and have the same calendar,
and so in that sense Task 5 would contribute 35% of the work but 100% of the
duration.
--
HTH

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


"RachelN" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Planning without start and finish dates

Posted: 15 Apr 2005 10:50 AM PDT

Yes, so don't print start and finish dates! Just select Format, Timescale
and change the labels to Week1 etc. You also need to remove dates form
Milestones by selecting Format, Bar Styles..

--

Rod Gill
Project MVP


"hidden" <com> wrote in message
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Copy Existing Project into Template

Posted: 15 Apr 2005 07:33 AM PDT

Adding a note to Gerard's answer. You say you want to copy % complete.
Almost everything you say you want to include in the tmeplate makes sense
except that. A template is a device to create a NEW project file wimilar to
this one without having to re-invent the wheel. Since a new file is (should
be) created before any work is done on the new project, one should not
include any baseline or actuals - costs, % completes, start or finish dates,
etc in the template as that information only goes in after the new project
is finalized and for actuals, after work begins.
--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs


"roadkill" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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show deleted tasks compared to baseline

Posted: 15 Apr 2005 01:48 AM PDT

Hello Arlo,
Instead of deleting these tasks, I'ld set their Duration to 0, so their Work
and Cost would be set to 0 too.

Gérard Ducouret

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Report of estimated % complete.

Posted: 15 Apr 2005 01:39 AM PDT

BCWS represents the amount of work that should have been done up to the
status date, expressed in terms of its expected costs. BCWP represents the
amount of work that actually WAS done up to the same status date, also
expressed in terms of what you planned to pay for it. ACWP is the amount
you actually DID pay to get that work done. It's broken down this way to
allow you to track performance against both schedule and budget
independently. BAC is Budget At Completion, the total expected cost of
doing all the work. It's the same number as Baseline Cost. So BCWS/BAC
represents the % Work Complete you should have achieved by the status date.
BCWP/BAC represents the % Work Complete you actually did achieve by the
status date. BCWP/BCWS give you SPI, Schedule Performance Index - <1 means
you're behind and >1 means you're ahead.

For consistency, make sure you understand there is a very big difference
between % Complete and % Work Complete. % Complete refers to duration but %
Work Complete refers to, well, work. How could they be different? It
happens whenever you have work contours. You have a task that starts Monday
at 8am and finishes Friday at 5pm. It's applying paint where there has to
be overnight drying time between coats. The resource puts in 1 hour each
day on Mon, Tue, Wed, and Thur applying the initial coats and then does all
the finish work on Fri taking 8 hours. Duration is 40 hours, total work is
12 hours. It is now 5pm Thursday and everything is on schedule. % Complete
= 4d/5d or 80%, % Work Complete = 4h/12h or 33% % Physical Complete -
essentially meaningless concept in this case IMO.
--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs



"DaveFusion" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Formula Not working at the customize enterprise project Field Leve

Posted: 14 Apr 2005 05:38 PM PDT

Hi Dale,

Hit the F9 key and it doesn't work. Is there a difference in formula
calculation method from tasks to projects view? I just want a summary rollup
of the indicators from tasks to projects view in PWA. Each task has it own
results through the indicator from red, yellow or green. I want a summary
rollup view in PWA that indicates a red or yellow if only one red or yellow
in the tasks is shown. This will indicate to mgmt that they need to drill
down further on the project. If it is green in PWA then that means all tasks
are green.

-Napone



"Dale Howard [MVP]" wrote:
 

Can you convert a Microsoft Project doc. into PDF form?

Posted: 14 Apr 2005 04:53 PM PDT

Hi sdblondy,

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


"sdblondy" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Leveling after updating tasks

Posted: 14 Apr 2005 02:28 PM PDT

Scott ,

First of all you have to ensure that your project's status date is the same
date as the week ending date of the time you are entering. Second of all you
have to level after entering actuals. Hopefully you're dependencies are OK.
I have seen Project push an end date by as much as 3 months after entering
actuals and then when you level the date comes back in. So that you don't
get too confused when entering actuals turn off your Auto Calculation. Enter
your actuals. Then turn it back on and level.

"com" wrote:
 

Phone number to call

Posted: 14 Apr 2005 01:25 PM PDT

Shaun,

There is a BUG in Project 2002 and 2003 whereby baselining selected tasks
does NOT calculate right. Our company has gotton a hotfix for Project 2003
and at that time Microsoft was NOT sure whether or not they were going to
implement into 2002. Below is the link to the hotfix. To baseline change of
scope items highlight the task you want and select Tools, Tracking, Save
Baseline. Check the Selected Tasks check box and check the first item only -
To all Summary Tasks. Here is the link to the hotfix that fixes the selected
tasks calcuation issue for Project 2003 -
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=891203
"Shaun" wrote:
 

Completion of tasks in MS Projects

Posted: 14 Apr 2005 11:10 AM PDT

Adding a comment to Jan's answer - if you're asking because you need to
preserve your original estimates of the work after you update the task with
actual work, that's what a baseline is for. If you save a baseline before
beginning to post actual performance (as you should), after entering the
actual work into a task the Work field will show what it actually took to
complete the task while the Baseline Work field will hold what you
originally thought it was going to take.

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

"Amanda" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Why is it not good practice to link to summary tasks?

Posted: 13 Apr 2005 01:21 PM PDT

I agree totally with Jack D and Pratta - Project was made to be very
flexible. The allow dependencies to summary accounts in case you want to do
a very high level plan that is not resource loaded. If you have a REAL plan
, no matter the planning tool, you DO NOT want to have dependencies on
Summary accounts. To better understand this you need to understand the
leveling engine and how it works. Use summary accounts FUBAR the leveling
engine.

"pratta" wrote: