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Posted: 12 Feb 2006 06:51 PM PST

Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for the help

Best Use of Template File with Resources?

Posted: 12 Feb 2006 01:38 PM PST

Mike,
Your advice is reassuring. I will work with this in mind and keep you
posted.
John Hansen


"Mike Glen" <glenATmvps.org> wrote in message
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Newbie genearl PM question

Posted: 12 Feb 2006 06:35 AM PST

Understand exactly what you mean. Part of the issue is one which Project
cannot be expected to help with and that is simple management. There are
times when you have to simply manage the contractors. To help with this
though and where you have the concerns is scheduling which drive to do first
when four houses all come due at the same time.

First assign a deadline to the completion of each house. This will create
critical paths for you, and the slack between end of the house and preceeding
activities will differ from house to house. This is important as resource
levelling uses the slack values to 'decide' how to order conflicting
resources. Hence if you have three houses with driveways all able to be done
at the same time, but house 1 has the first deadline, house two the second
and house three the third deadline, then the slack between finishing the
house and the driveway being completed will differ from house to house.
Project will then level out the asphalting contractor's work based on the
slack available at each house, so it should schedukle House 1 first, house 2
second etc.

You may have other reasons to prioritise houses, in which case you can set
priorities of each task in the project and when levelling select to level by
Standard,Priority.

Using the levelling function on the critical resources will give you dates
that you can then give to your contractors and subject to no other changes
make those dates firm to them and simply follow up as normal to make sure
they are ready as advised previously.

Hiope this helps

Regards

DavidC

"Just Fun" wrote:
 

Report for Assigned Tasks

Posted: 11 Feb 2006 07:25 AM PST

Hi Brian,

I assume you have found the Who Does What Report and discovered the fact
that the report doesn't sort the assignments by Start Date.

The work around that I use as suggested by John is the resource usage view
with the Start and Finish date added to the table (left side) and then
sorted by Start date. I then hide the right side (timescaled portion) of
the view.

I hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie

"Brian Ross" <com> wrote in message
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Provide Project templates which helps PRINCE2 beginners

Posted: 10 Feb 2006 08:27 PM PST

Hi,

I did a Google Search of the WEB and found this site:
http://www.ogc.gov.uk/prince2/downloads/template_case.htm
Is there anything there that might be useful to you?
John Hansen

"Osama Mokadmy from UNDP" <Osama Mokadmy from
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How do I insert a new task into an existing project?

Posted: 10 Feb 2006 04:11 PM PST

Do you have the project sorted or filtered? make sure the filter All Tasks
is displayed (shortcut for that is F3) and that you are sorted by ID
(Project, Sort menu).

Links and summary tasks should have no effect.

Can you insert into a new schedule?

--

Rod Gill
Project MVP
Visit www.msproject-systems.com for Project Companion Tools and more


"Jerry Richgels" <Jerry microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Resources, resource types, vendors

Posted: 10 Feb 2006 01:57 PM PST

Hi MCraig,

It appears that you need a database rather than a timebased product as
Project is.

Would it not be better to set up an access database with all the data and
run relevant queries?

Regards
DavidC

"MCraig" wrote:
 

Why does my calendar always start on February 1998?

Posted: 10 Feb 2006 01:23 PM PST

You're welcome, Nick :-) I suggest you download the free SP2 from
Microsoft.

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP


nickbike wrote: 

Change Indent

Posted: 10 Feb 2006 12:23 PM PST

Hi bill,

This is what I do - not eactly what you ask for but it helps:
Tools-Options-View
Uncheck Indent Tasks
Check Show Outline Number

Try it..
HTH

--
Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
http://users.online.be/prom-ade/
+32-495-300 620
"Bill" <com> schreef in bericht
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General Information

Posted: 10 Feb 2006 11:17 AM PST

As for a very general overview, imo... MSProject allows a manager to
forcast events based on either previous experience or some other form
of input. All the stuff that goes through your head as a manager can
be entered and reports generated that allows you to view it and share
it and to pick it apart and refine it. Once the "plan" is made it can
be modified and tracked to figure out how well you created the plan in
the first place, and to adjust your forcasting abilities accordingly.
MSProject also allows you the ability through tracking to "prove" who's
fault certain discrepancies caused what differences in your timeline.
Project can simply help to get a rough idea of how long a small project
will take or can be a major undertaking for multitudes of managerial
types working on complex products, but the end result is only as good
as the data entered and the commitment to stay on top of it. Good
luck with your course.

Actual Work Protection

Posted: 10 Feb 2006 11:05 AM PST

Hi ,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :)

Not without password protection of the file.

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

Lucky_guy2000 wrote: 

Can I create a project without dates, ie, day 1, day 2 etc?

Posted: 10 Feb 2006 10:43 AM PST

Hi Bill,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :)

The best that Project can offer is Tools/Options.../Date Format: and select
the format for week numbers.

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

Bill wrote: 

Link Project data into Excel Worksheet

Posted: 10 Feb 2006 10:40 AM PST

You'll need another cell that converts the 20h or whatever into a value then
format that cell with custom format 0\h

use formula:
=VALUE(LEFT(A1,LEN(1)-1))
--

Rod Gill
Project MVP
Visit www.msproject-systems.com for Project Companion Tools and more


"Neil" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Specific date range reporting

Posted: 10 Feb 2006 01:56 AM PST

Thanks DavidC, I think I was trying to overcomplicate things and this works a
treat!



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