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Posted: 13 Mar 2006 08:27 AM PST

Hello John
Thanks for your help.
I am a bit confused. Ex: I have a project with date of 2/1/06 thru
4/28/06.
there are multiple tasks with summary tasks that goes from period in
following way
1--summary 1----2/1/06 thru 3/1/06
2--summary 2----3/15/06 thru 3/31/06
3--summary 3----4/1/06 thru 4/28/06.

What I was thinking that Summary 3 should be critical since it has no slak
and will be affecting the project finish date. But not summary 1 and 2, even
when they are on schedule. They could be critical if they were delayed but
they are not.

Please help I need to have this report by this afternoon....Thanks for your
help

"John" wrote:
 

non-working time not printing on Gantt chart

Posted: 13 Mar 2006 07:50 AM PST

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the prompt reply. My timescale is showing full days in the
bottom tier (M T W T F S S) , weeks in the middle tier (13 Mar '06), and none
in the top tier. Zooming the view does not affect print and preview (ie;
non-working time shaded on the screen does not appear in preview or printed)

Non-working tab is set to the default of silver, shaded, standard project
calendar, and draw 'behind task bars' radio button.

Regards,
Paul

"Mike Glen" wrote:
 

Monte Carlo simulation in MS-Project?

Posted: 12 Mar 2006 12:35 AM PST


Dr. Wolfgang Hintze wrote: 

PERT, or Variance ysis, as taught in the PMIBOK, is obsolete, for
reasons I won't go into here. That said, you're description of how it's
normally applied is incorrect.You don't just add up all optiomistic,
pessimistic and most likely durations and come up with 3 estimates. You
add the optimistic, pessimistic and 4 times the most likely and divide
by 6 to get and expected duration. This gives you a sort of composite.
It's not very meaningful statistically, and with the availability of
Monte Carlo software, obsolete. But at least understand how to apply it
before you discard it.
Hope this helps in your world, Dr!

Actualwork over run

Posted: 11 Mar 2006 08:07 PM PST

Hi,

Steve has delivered in this thread a full explanation on some of these,
namely the %complete methods.

Update as scheduled (reached through Tool, Update project) turns all work
planned up to a certain date into Actual Work and leaves the remaining work
as such.

Actual Work when entered as a whole (not timephased) turns planned work up
to the amount entered into Actual Work.
When the amount entered is smaller than the planned work, it lmeaves
remaining work as such.
When teh amount of actual work entered is larger than the planned work it
sets the task to 100% done, and schedules all the extra (Actual-planned)
according to the assignment units as actual work

Actual Work, when entered in a cell of the Usage views, replaces Work for
that period;
when the amount entered makes the total larger than the planned work for the
task, it accepts the value and puts the task to 100%;
when the amount entered is larger than the work planned for that period it
accepts the value and reschedules the task such that total work is
unchanged;
when the amount entered is smaller than the work planned during that period:
- when the task is fixed work, it accepts the value and reschedules the
task such that total work is unchanged;
- for other task types, it accepts the value and decreases work for the
assignment.

Make a few tests to illustrate should this become too boring long..

Hope this helps,
--
Jan De Messemaeker, Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
http://users.online.be/prom-ade/
For FAQs: http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm
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Tracking Costs & Billables in 1 Project

Posted: 11 Mar 2006 06:36 PM PST

Thanks!
 

How to calculate Duration?

Posted: 11 Mar 2006 11:28 AM PST

In article <#phx.gbl>,
"Sapper" <sympatico.ca> wrote:
 

Sapper,
I only used actual resource names for illustration. As Jan pointed out,
the resources could just as well be generic. Those are referred to as
group resources in Project.

Many times generic resources are preferred because you may not care that
Joe will be doing the work on a task. What you really need is a
millwright and that might actually be Joe, Tom, Mary, etc.

John
Project MVP

 

How do I edit pictures that are saved to a cd as read only?

Posted: 11 Mar 2006 09:41 AM PST

Hi ,

This newsgroup is specifically for matters dealing with Microsoft Project.
I suggest you try to find a more appropriate newsgroup that deals with
Windows problems.

Mike Glen
Project MVP

csimnitt wrote: 

Cost calculations incorrect

Posted: 11 Mar 2006 08:51 AM PST

LOL - No offense, but I don't know what to think because honestly I can't
figure out what you're really doing or why you're doing it.

The way I go about it is - this task is to build 100 widgets. I know how
Fred usually manages to build 10 a day when he's not otherwise distracted.
So working 100% it will take him 10 days (duration) to build 100. Fred
works 8 hours per day. I assign him 100% to the task. Thus it will require
80 man-hours to build 100 widgets. Fred gets paid $20/hr. Thus my project
budget is $1600 to build the required 100 widgets.

The inputs in Project are: Fred works 8-5 with an hour for lunch, M-F.
Fred's pay rate is $20/hr. Fred doesn't need to be doing anything else at
the same time so I can use him 100%. And working full time I expect the
task to take him 10 days to complete. I put in the duration estimate and
assign Fred to the task. Project calculates it is an 80 man-hour task and
will cost $1600. Project looks at Fred's resource calendars to see what
days and hours Fred going to be there to work on the widgets and uses that
info to compute when the task will start and when the 100 widgets will be
completed. In other words, it requires 80 hours of work and Fred's calendar
says when those 80 hours will take place - like Friday counts for 8 hours of
duration because Fred is working but Saturday doesn't count for duration
because it's Fred's day off.

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



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Outline indents appear to disappear

Posted: 10 Mar 2006 04:23 PM PST

It was.
I closed project. Re-booted, and things appear normally again.
But thanks for the tip.
bmac

"Rod Gill" <rod AT project-systems DOT co DOT nz> wrote in message
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How to make 2 tasks start at the same time

Posted: 10 Mar 2006 03:32 PM PST

Hi Dave,

By now you have got some ideas that all work "sometimes".
The tough reality is that there is no way to make sure sure two tasks are,
and remain, simultaneous.
Paste link creates a "Start no earlier than" constraint thus does not
guarantee more than a link.
And yes, uyou can put leveling out of play by giving a 1000 priority but
that (and I do appreciate that!) is not what you look for.

No, sorry, won't do.
If this is a consolation: putting two resources on one task absolutely does
not ensure the two assignments will be simultaneous either!!

Greetings,

--
Jan De Messemaeker, Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
http://users.online.be/prom-ade/
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Moving tasks to status date

Posted: 10 Mar 2006 02:08 PM PST

Thanks guys!! Appreciate the help!

"Gérard Ducouret" wrote:
 

How can I list files attached via Hyperlink within MS Project?

Posted: 10 Mar 2006 10:41 AM PST

Hi Bill,

Have you tried adding the Hyperlink Address field to the table? It will
show you the full path to the hyperlinked files.

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

Julie
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Benefits & Allowances

Posted: 10 Mar 2006 07:17 AM PST

hi Jason,

One way to accomplish this is to define "Lunch" as a material resource along
with its cost.

Then for the tasks where lunch is served add this as a resource. If it is
served to only one of the resources add it once, if two then add it twice and
so on.

This way the cost of lunch will be aculated with the project cost through
the life of the project.

Regards,

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