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Managing Time Worked Microsoft Project

Managing Time Worked

Posted: 16 Aug 2005 01:16 PM PDT

Hi Steve,

I know you are absolutely right, but at least half of the customers I see
think like that. You simply can't ask people to report of their time on a
detailed level. A customer I know used the word unthinkable, and "if that is
the price to use MS Project, we'll do without".

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Rookie question

Posted: 16 Aug 2005 12:04 PM PDT

Project works with Tasks and Resources.
When a resource is working on a task it is called an assignment.
Assignments consist of an amount of work that the resource is going to do on
that specific task.
The work on a task consists of the sum of work in all assignments.
When the resource assignment is removed, then that work is removed.
Work represents the number of resource hours/days/weeks/minutes that is
being expended.
Further Project uses the equation Work = Duration * Units to determine what
work is.
Units refers to the number of resource units.
Altering one of the values in the equation will affect at least one of the
other values.
You can see that an increase in work will require a proportional increase in
duration or Units.

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Custom Milestone not working

Posted: 16 Aug 2005 11:25 AM PDT

The flag is triggered manually, I or someone enters YES in the flag1 field to
trigger the milestone to be a "sign-off". There is probably a way to do this
easeir but for nowe this seemed to work everywhere else except that one. An
no the task that does not work is not a summary.

I deleted and recreated the task and set the duration to zero, then inserted
YES in the flag1 field and this did the trick, however it was no different
than the orignal task, so something was going on. (Later I checked the show
as milestone box, and reset the duration to the 1 day as I wanted.) I want
the duration to be 1 day (as it is usually a day long meeting where review
and sign-off occurs) but the task should still appear as a milestone, so I
manually check the milestone box in the task information window to accomplish
this, could this have something to do with it?

Thanks for the reply.

"John" wrote:
 

Remaining hours extending project

Posted: 16 Aug 2005 10:56 AM PDT

Think about it for a minute - the duration HAS to change. Joe was assigned
100% to a task that would take 5 days. He worked 3 days and then estimates
that there are still 4 days of work to do, the original 5 day estimate was
off. You really only have 2 choices. He either works 8 hours a day for 4
days to do the required work, extending the curation to a total of 7 days in
the process, or he somehow magically gets the 4 days of remaining work
accomplished in the 2 days of time left in the the original duration,
generating 16 hours of work during each 8 hour workday thus working at 200%
allocation. But that's actually not possible - 100% means the resource is
already working as fast as they can possibly work and the only way you
really can exceeed that is to get someone else to work along with him to
carry part of the load. There really aren't any other physical ways that
scene could play out.

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Many Small Problems

Posted: 16 Aug 2005 10:43 AM PDT

Dale said it all, but why would you NOT just automatically keep all your
users on all the up-to-date service packs, not just Project but for all your
other software as well? They're free so the cost is very minimal, just the
labour cost of applying the patches, and they're always issued for a reason,
usally to fix a problem. I suggest just consider the maintaining of all
your software to the most current service packs to be just a routine and
non-optional part of the business overheads.

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MS Project Trainer & Consultant
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"David" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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assigning tasks to "sub PMs" to schedule them

Posted: 16 Aug 2005 09:56 AM PDT

Hi Schemir,

this approach can be used if you have project server.

This is a link to PowerPoint demo, how top-down planning can be done with
Project Sever:
http://www.bogdanov-associates.com/imgrubrs.asp?art_id=85&img=file


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i want to know the first start date in a number of duplicate tasks

Posted: 16 Aug 2005 07:26 AM PDT

Did you make the dependency from the start of the milestone to the start of
the task or the other way around?
The first should work. The second will give the result you describe.

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In Microsoft Project, No Enterprise Options under the tools menu?

Posted: 16 Aug 2005 06:55 AM PDT


Hi Randall ,

Next time you might like to try posting on the server newsgroup. Please see
FAQ Item: 24. Project Newsgroups. FAQs, companion products and other
useful Project information can be seen at this web address:
http://www.mvps.org/project/.

Mike Glen
Project MVP


Randall wrote: 

How do I view any baseline?

Posted: 15 Aug 2005 06:08 PM PDT


Hi Bill,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-)

Please see FAQ Item: 14. Viewing Multiple Baselines

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

John wrote: 

Gantt Charting - Help Needed

Posted: 15 Aug 2005 02:39 PM PDT


You're welcome, Jothi:-)

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP


Ganesh wrote: 

Losing settings in Global.MPT

Posted: 15 Aug 2005 02:07 PM PDT

THanks Mike. I'll try that.
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"Mike Glen" wrote:
 

Forward Pass

Posted: 15 Aug 2005 12:42 PM PDT


Terry Montgomery wrote: 

Terry,
I've been teaching CPM for years. This is hard to explain in detail
here. If you'd like to contact me, I'd be happy to go over it with you.
Email me if you're interested.
Dave

Having the task finish date update when % complete = 100%

Posted: 15 Aug 2005 12:29 PM PDT

Nope because the updates might or might not be happening in real time. What
would happen if the task was scheduled for Mon, Tue, and Wed of last week,
we found that we were actually done late Tuesday afternoon, but for some
reason we put off updating our timecard information until today?
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Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs


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Project 98, Oldies Goldies

Posted: 15 Aug 2005 08:37 AM PDT

Hi Jan,

Thanks for answers, I will check & post again in here, in case of a problem.

-Ali

"Jan De Messemaeker" wrote: