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Project Performance Indicator Microsoft Project

Project Performance Indicator

Posted: 14 Dec 2005 02:44 PM PST

Are you not trying to go to a lot of trouble to invent something which is:
time consuming
possibly counter-productive
maybe pointless and meaningless and uninformative
already invented better and already built in to MSP provided you set it up
properly in the first place

You need to define what "performance" actually is.
You need to define what "success" is.

Since the "status" of a project at any given point in time during execution
is likely to be a mixture of things which are "over/under/on schedule", and
"over/under/on budget" it is pointless trying to boil down the whole picture
to one number or colour indicator. How serious the status any of the parts
of the project are, and whether they are cause for joy or concern or
correction, and what form the correction should take, are matters for
assessment of the specific cirstances which include which Tasks are
involved and what point of time is being considered. This is the essence of
ysis.
For example, non-critical Tasks which are starting and/or finishing "late"
(ie later than scheduled) but well within their float, are nothing much to
be comcerned about.
In this game, even a simple word such as "late" requires qualification.

CPI and SPI come close to being valid, meaningful indicators by themselves.
Your invention of adding them together, and your arbitrary 10% variance, are
creative but how do they help?

Trevor Rabey

"mike edwards" <com.(donotspam)> wrote in message
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Default rate table

Posted: 14 Dec 2005 10:33 AM PST

I'm not 100% clear but here's what I see. I would have 2 resources (or more)
and each resource would be assigned to a seperate rate table.

"ben" wrote:
 

Sub Menu within a menu

Posted: 14 Dec 2005 10:32 AM PST

Dale,

Glad to be of assistance. Thank *you* for providing the great project
server FAQ information!

J
"Dale Howard [MVP]" <dale(dot)howard(at)msprojectexperts(dot)com> wrote in
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copy and paste columns

Posted: 14 Dec 2005 09:50 AM PST

True, but you can insert it next to the end and then delete the end one and
re-insert it.


Mike Glen
Project MVP

Gérard Ducouret wrote: 

time units - how to keep them the same

Posted: 14 Dec 2005 08:12 AM PST

In article <com>,
Katherine <microsoft.com> wrote:
 

Katherine,
I assume that you set both Duration and Work to be entered as "hours" in
Tools/Options/Schedule tab. For the Duration field that works fine for a
new project or for any new tasks added to an existing project. However,
any duration that was entered in something other than days will stay
with that unit of measurement. An exception is for Summary lines. Like
the Work field, the unit of measurement will immediately change to
whatever is set in the options.

However, you can globally change existing duration measurement units by
using the Format_Duration utility. To run it, go to Tools/Macro/Macros
and select "Format_Duration". Then hit "Run". An input box will pop up
asking you to select the duration unit from a selection list.

Hope this helps.
John
Project MVP

reporting project progress

Posted: 13 Dec 2005 10:15 PM PST


1) Yes I did entre the fixed cost in the Fixed Cost Field.
2) One days completion as per the Schedule is 20%, i.e. $12, but th
Actual progress is $14, i.e. 23%.
3) What I want to see is BCWS as $12, and BCWP as $14
4) The actual cost is a different issue that would not varry in m
case

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update microsoft project 98

Posted: 13 Dec 2005 06:41 PM PST

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

con-corp,
If you already have Project 2003 and just need to translate your old
Project 98 files so you can use them, I can do that for you. Just zip
the old Project 98 files and e-mail them to me. If they aren't corrupt,
I will translate and send them back.

John
Project MVP

Resource Graph (Master vs. Consolidated)

Posted: 13 Dec 2005 04:28 PM PST

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

Hadi,
My e-mail is in the header but perhaps that doesn't show on your
newsreader. Send them to:
mjensenatattheriverdotdotcom
remove obvious redundancies.

John
Project MVP

Project File Size is HUGE suddenly

Posted: 13 Dec 2005 04:19 PM PST

In article <com>,
"Hadi" <microsoft.com> wrote:
 
Hadi,
Just how big are your files both in terms of task lines and storage
size? Also, do you have any imbedded graphics?

If you used the methods described in our MVP FAQ 43, then maybe that is
simply how big your files should be. However, if your files are really
big, I mean really really big for the number of tasks and nothing else
has helped, a VBA solution could do the trick. It could basically read
the necessary data from each existing file and re-create fresh new files
(it's kind of like copying to Excel or Access but I wouldn't trust that
a simple copy would capture all the Project data). That's basically what
should have happened with the "save to database and re-open with
Project" approach but maybe some "baggage" is still retained.

John
Project MVP

Need Help with High Level View Resource Template

Posted: 13 Dec 2005 11:41 AM PST

Hi,

Really similar is not possible.
You can come closer in the task usage view (I misread your question thinking
you needed it by resource)
Hope this helps,

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Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
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get #Error when add new task

Posted: 13 Dec 2005 04:23 AM PST

thank you

Can you show me step by step how you add the formula ?

I"m using Project Profissional 2003

1 - Tools->Customize->fields
2- Choose Text 17 and click on the formula radioButton and click
"Formula" Button
3- write IIf(IsNull([Text11]),'',[Text11])
4-click ok

the formula copy the exist data , when i write new task by enter the
task name , i get #Error in text 17

Saving base calendar

Posted: 12 Dec 2005 03:40 PM PST

Thanks Rod. I downloaded SP2 from microsoft but the problem still remains.
Thank you for the response.

"Rod Gill" wrote:
 

Multiple delpoyment schedule help needed for large project

Posted: 12 Dec 2005 01:05 PM PST

It sounds like you need to have a Summary Task for each area and within each
area "Sub-Summary Task". You also need to make logic ties between the areas
but I don't suggest making logic ties to the Summary Task. Here is an example
of what I see:
AREA 1 - FIRST DEPLOYMENT (Summary Task)
DISCIPLINE WORK (Sub-Summary)
ID 1 -
ID 2 -
MOCK TESTING 1st DEPLOYMENT (Sub-Summary)
ID 100 - XX (successor ID 200)

(Repeat For 2nd Deployment)

AREA 2 - PROGRAMING (Summary Task)
INCREMENT 1 (Sub-Summary)
ID 200 - XX
You would continue this through out the entire project making the logic ties
you talked about. It's like eating an elephant. Good Luck.




"dsm" wrote:
 

How do I link tasks so that when i level there is no gap in tim?

Posted: 12 Dec 2005 11:14 AM PST

Hi Craig,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :)

I would advise against scheduelling from the finish, as every task will
finish as late as possible and thus everything becomes critical and you lose
any flexibility that Project could give you. Schedule from the start and
create a deadline task based on the latest date the job can finish. When
you level, you will then see the amount of time you have to play with. If
it's going to be late on the deadline, at least you will be aware of it and
do something (like overtime) to bring forward the finish to within the
deadline. Let Project do the scheduelling to see what's possible with your
inputs. You can then adjust to meet your target.

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on :)

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP

Craig Kalugin wrote: 

Task ID Number Changes

Posted: 12 Dec 2005 10:26 AM PST

Thanks Rod, this is exactly what I was looking for.


"Rod Gill" wrote:
 

Enterprise Resource backup and reload

Posted: 12 Dec 2005 10:01 AM PST

You're welcome, Susan:-)

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP


SusanC wrote: 

Dates not printing across Gnatt Chart

Posted: 12 Dec 2005 09:42 AM PST

We seem to have this twice! Anyway, you're welcome - glad you fixed it.


Mike Glen
Project MVP



Marshall wrote: 

Multiple Dependecies between the same tasks

Posted: 12 Dec 2005 08:58 AM PST


scott_hanebutt wrote: 

That's why we keep Jan around. Every once it a while, he makes sense!
:)
 

Merge actuals from 2 seperate tasks?

Posted: 12 Dec 2005 08:17 AM PST

In article <com>,
Joe <microsoft.com> wrote:
 

Joe,
You're welcome.
John

Why are Start & Finish Dates are grayed out?

Posted: 12 Dec 2005 07:42 AM PST

You're welcome, Jim:-)

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP


Jim wrote: 

Removing Summary Tasks from Network Diagram

Posted: 12 Dec 2005 05:50 AM PST

You're welcome, Steve :-)

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP


Steve Adams, PMP wrote: 

Indent and Outdent - does not seem to work

Posted: 12 Dec 2005 05:46 AM PST

Hi,

This is a known bug in Project 2003 Standard.
You can download and apply SP1 or SP2.
HTH

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