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- What template can I use to make lables that are in sheets of 24?
- Project Server 2003 and Project 2003 Professional Resource Sheets
- List Predecessor name instead of number
- Schedule Validation
- File Size Depends on Where Stored ! ? !
- Late Dates incorrect after indenting under Summary Task
- Can I track the same project milestones across numerous projects?
- Task Reporting by Resource - All Projects
- Assigning multiple people to a task
- Can I insert predecessor tasks as ranges in the Gantt Chart viewof MSProject 2003 pro?
- Missing Text when printing Gantt Chart
- Macro for printing Gantt Charts
- Filter: today plus # of days
- General Overview??
- Where do I get a 120 day eval key for MS Proj 2002?
- Times not calculating - Urgent!
- Start versus Actual Start...
- Project Server - Executive Summary
- Resource Availability Setting vs. Leveling
- 24 hour working
- Showing % complete on baselines
- Can I use small business server to host project server?
- Combining Resource and Task Tables
- MS Project Actual vs Planned duration and effort
| What template can I use to make lables that are in sheets of 24? Posted: 18 Feb 2005 02:39 PM PST Hi Mike, Well I'm sort of new to this computer thing and seeings how I was working with MIcrosoft, I thought this news group would help. I wasn't sure which group to go to seeings how I don't know to much about this. Barbie "Mike Glen" wrote: |
| Project Server 2003 and Project 2003 Professional Resource Sheets Posted: 18 Feb 2005 02:19 PM PST Actually, I wanted to eliminate the view in order to eliminate two fields in the sheet. The Standard Rate and Overtime Rate. The employees are allowed to add task and assign resources, but I just didn't want them to see employee rates. Thanks for your help. John Flowers "Dale Howard [MVP]" wrote: |
| List Predecessor name instead of number Posted: 18 Feb 2005 01:14 PM PST That worked nicely Jan, Once again, thanks for your efforts Tim Graham "Jan De Messemaeker" <jandemes at prom hyphen ade dot be> wrote in message news:%phx.gbl... editor. Text1 message (I same ID |
| Posted: 18 Feb 2005 10:20 AM PST I'd venture to say in most cases the PM won't have resources permanently reporting to him. They may not even be temporarily transfered to be under his control for the duration of the project, although they may be. He very well may not even have the resource's managers, or anyone for that matter, reporting to him. Some organizational specialists talk about "position power" versus "political power." When someone exercises position power, they are the boss and have the authority to directly mandate something be done in a certain way. When one exercises political power OTOH, one influences the outcome without having the direct position authority to mandate it. But lack of direct position authority still doesn't mean that the PM isn't the one that should be making the decisions about how the resources are deployed. It only goes to the techniques he must use to get those decisions implemented. It may well be that the pm "advises" senior managment as to what the resources need to do and then the senior management is the one with the authority to actually direct them to do it via the chain of command. Buit in terms of what the resources end up doing, the end result is the same regardless of whether the chain of command is one of the direct exercise of authority or the result is achieved by the indirect application of political influence. You said and you are absolutely correct. That is why I tell my students the most important traits of a project manager include the ability to formulate meaningful questions, the ability to seek out experts (including the resources on the project) who have the answers, and the good sense to actually listen to the answers they receive. But that doesn't negate the fact that Harry Truman's sign "The buck stops here" should also be on their desks. They shouldn't relinguish control to others who may have their own agendas that run counter to the project's objectives. Seek out the best advice one can find, but always be the one to decide whether to take it or not. My point is I can't imagine a PM being able to do the job without taking a proactive approach to the structure of the work. The methods that one uses to influence the outcome might take many different forms depending on the nature of the organization. But the one thing that will be common to all (successful) projects is the PM's understanding that he is tasked to be the composer of the symphony and the conductor of the orchestra performing it and not merely a sound engineer recording the performance. -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "JackD" <momokuri@gmail> wrote in message news:%phx.gbl... |
| File Size Depends on Where Stored ! ? ! Posted: 18 Feb 2005 06:45 AM PST No thoughts. An interesting phenomenon though. -- -Jack ... For project information and macro examples visit http://masamiki.com/project .. "MWE" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... test been in were Dir2 have that stripped that could than file different by |
| Late Dates incorrect after indenting under Summary Task Posted: 18 Feb 2005 06:35 AM PST I'm not aware of any "bug" like you're describing. The total slack time of a task is the amount of time it could be delayed without delaying the project finish, in a nutshell. Imagine Summary Task A with subtasks A1 (3d), A2 (4d), & A3 (5d). The subtasks are not linked so they occur in parallel, all starting the same day. Summary task A links to Summary X FS and Summary X in turn links FS to the Finish milestone. What are the late dates of A1, A2, & A3? Summary A's finish is determined by A3 so the late date of A3 and Summary A are the same. Only if Summary A is delayed past that point will Summary X be delayed, hence that is also the latest date it can finish without delaying the project's finish. The late finishes of A1 and A2 are also that same date as A3 (which is also the late finish of Summary A), since they could slip by 2 or 1 day respectively before they delay the finish of Summary A. I think that is what you're describing in your posting but where's the bug in that? That is exactly the way late starts and late finishes are supposed to be calculated and that's the way project does calculate them. And this is even with linking between the summary tasks, which is often considered a bad idea. The alternative linking would have A1, A2, and A3 all as predecessors to X1 and no links directly in or out of the summary tasks themselves but the results are exactly the same. If I'm missing something here, please give us some concrete example that demonstrates what you consider to be this bug - what Project gives you and what you think it should be giving you instead (and why you feel Project is wrong and your way is right). I'm really curious. -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "Sean" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Can I track the same project milestones across numerous projects? Posted: 18 Feb 2005 06:35 AM PST In article <com>, "Jalun" <microsoft.com> wrote: Jalun, Yes John |
| Task Reporting by Resource - All Projects Posted: 18 Feb 2005 06:25 AM PST The following SQL statement returns actual hours as published by the PM. Select p.proj_name, r.res_name, a.task_name, a.assn_act_work/60000 as actual_hours from msp_web_resources r inner join msp_web_assignments a on a.wres_id=r.wres_id inner join msp_web_projects p on p.wproj_id=a.wproj_id order by proj_name, res_name, task_name -- Ed Morrison msProjectExperts "We wrote the books on Project Server" http://www.msprojectexperts.com "William Busby" <net> wrote in message news:2VmRd.187$news.atl.earthlink.net... that attributes to |
| Assigning multiple people to a task Posted: 17 Feb 2005 06:23 PM PST adding to Jan's comments, so in the units column 100% means 1 electrician, so if you want 5 type 500% (unless you've changed your assignment units to decimals - then type 5). Cheers JulieD "Jan De Messemaeker" <jandemes at prom hyphen ade dot be> wrote in message news:Oz%23Jn$phx.gbl... |
| Can I insert predecessor tasks as ranges in the Gantt Chart viewof MSProject 2003 pro? Posted: 17 Feb 2005 05:12 PM PST Hi Anonymous, Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-) No to both questions :( Are there no other successors to the 40 odd tasks? Have they no other linkk? If they are in a chain, just link the last to the milestone. 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 Anonymous Coward wrote: |
| Missing Text when printing Gantt Chart Posted: 17 Feb 2005 03:25 PM PST My 'fit timescale to end of page' option was not set, and the problem still occured. Also, because I set up my tasks grouped by areas, the task at the bottom of the screen is not necessarily the one furthest to the right. Just now, it still happened, but I found that if moved the screen left or right and roughly centered the bottom task in the screen, then the problem went away. You just had to tweak it left and right until it worked. Once it worked it stayed there until I ran a new filter. This is quite a pain because I sometimes macro print a Gantt for each resource, and I don't want to have to play with each prinout. "Rod Gill" wrote: |
| Macro for printing Gantt Charts Posted: 17 Feb 2005 03:01 PM PST There were several posts about this in the past week. I didn't read them carefully, but there was a resolution I think. Try http://groups.google.com and do an advanced search for it. (set the timeframe for the past 10 days or so) -- -Jack ... For project information and macro examples visit http://masamiki.com/project .. "KellyB" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... bold disk cut "PrintResourceCharts" to each for my the should 45 |
| Posted: 17 Feb 2005 01:51 PM PST On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 12:01:02 -0800, tmann donned fireproof underwear and scratched on the wall: Oh, very cool! That's ingenous. Thanks. -- kai www.perfectreign.com kai:/> format c: Error: The DOS concept of formatting disk media is screwed. If you want to create a filesystem use "mkfs". To format a floppy, use "fdformat /dev/fd0" and then "mkfs.minix /dev/fd0". |
| Posted: 17 Feb 2005 01:41 PM PST Hi in a nutshell "yes" ... but seriously recommend that you attend a 2-3 day hands-on course when starting out to understand project's methodologies and thought processes (and limitations) ... you could also check out Mike Glen's excellent series of articles at www.tinyurl.com/2xbhc Cheers JulieD "Schmidtnikov" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Where do I get a 120 day eval key for MS Proj 2002? Posted: 17 Feb 2005 01:37 PM PST It entered a key for me that didn't work. The MS Proj 2003 eval worked for me, tho, so the problem is solved. Thanks. "Steve House [MVP]" wrote: |
| Times not calculating - Urgent! Posted: 17 Feb 2005 10:49 AM PST When you have a summary task and several subtasks under it, the duration of the summary task is the amount of time between when the earliest subtask begins and the latest subtask finishes. You summary is showing .5 hours because all three of your subtasks start together, 2 of them finish 15 minutes later and 1 of them finished 30 minutes later. (This could be the case if each worksheet is being worked on by a separate person and all of them are working together, for example.) Thus the total time required all three is 30 minutes, the time between when they all start (all at once) and when the longest one finishes. If they are going to be done by ONE person, she can't work on all of them at the same time. Instead, she'll do number 1 and when its finished do number 2 and when that one is finished do number 3. To represent that sequence, create links from 1 to 2 to 3 so they are spread out in order. Now the total of the summary will equal 1 hour because thet's the total time between when she starts on number 1 and when she finishes number 3, working on them one at a time. -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "Shauna Koppang" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Posted: 17 Feb 2005 09:05 AM PST K - you asked what the difference was between Start and Actual Start and the answer is part of the root of your problem I suspect. The data tables in Project are database table "under the hood" and the various columns you see are fields in those table. When you look at the Entry table in the Gantt chart (the default standard task list, in other words) you see, among others, the Start, Finish, and Duration fields. (Think of those fields as being Scheduled Start, Scheduled Finish, and so forth.) But when you change the table (view, tables menu) to the tracking table you see columns labeled Actual Start, Actual Finish, Actual Duration, Remaining Duration, Actual Work, Remaining Work. Some other table options may show you Baseline Start, Baseline Finish, Baseline Duraion, Baseline Work ... Using Start as an example to keep the typing down -- Start and Actual Start (and the others) are not the same fields relabeled in different views - they actually are different fields in the database. The Start field is calculated by Project - it represents the planned project as it sits at the moment. While you're planning, Start is a calculated value, Actual Start and Baseline start are empty. When you have the plan as you think you'll perform it the Start field has the expected start dates of tasks, calculated by the network of links, the expected duration of each task, and the project start date. Hopefully you have NOT actually entered any of those dates by hand - you're not supposed to tell Project when you want Task X to be done - instead, it's supposed to be telling YOU when Task X is going to be able to be done. So Project is now displaying a schedule that it has calculated - it has looked at the start of the project and what you have told it about the nature of the work and forecast the dates where tasks can occur. Mark the word "forecast" - it's an important concept and explains some of Projects behavior. The start and finish fields represent the forecast, the scheduling of the latter tasks being driven by the scheduling of the early tasks. Now, the plan is ready and you're going to start work. You want to preserve the plan you expected to work for future reference so you save a baseline. The values from the Scheduled xxx fields are copied into the corresponding Baseline xxx fields - baselines don't change unless you explicitly force them to while the Scheduled fields will so you always have a reference point. Now Start = xxx, Baseline Start = xxx, Actual Start = [empty]. Now we post some actuals - you DO NOT enter the date the task actually started in the Start field. Instead, you record that in the Actual Start field. Likewise the Finish. Project does two things - it records your actuals AND it changes the Scheduled Start and Finish fields (the plain Start and Finish, in other words) to be equal to the Actuals. Why? Because the schedule of tasks out in the future is contingent on the schedule of tasks that come before them. If the earlier tasks are worked at times different from what was first planned, the subsequent tasks whose schedule is dependent on them must be revised accordingly. But just changing the Start and Finish fields in the Gantt chart entry table does NOT tell project what you did - it tells it you're changing what you expect to do but you haven't done it yet. That fact that those dates you're entering are before today doesn't enter into it because Project doesn't really know what day it is today. So when you're halfway through the Project, the Gantt chart reflects two types of data - what really did take place for work that has been done, and a revised forecast for the schedule of tasks still to come, the revised schedule based on what you've told it is the actual start and finish of those completed tasks. So how do you know what the original plan was? By looking at the Baseline Start, Finish etc fields. Because when you enter Actual Start, Project changes the Scheduled Start but it does NOT change the Baseline Start. HTH -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "K Major" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Project Server - Executive Summary Posted: 17 Feb 2005 08:01 AM PST T -- Create custom Gantt bar formats in PWA and then include the custom format in the custom Views you create. Hope this helps. -- Dale A. Howard [MVP] Enterprise Project Trainer/Consultant http://www.msprojectexperts.com "We wrote the book on Project Server" "T." <com> wrote in message news:phx.gbl... |
| Resource Availability Setting vs. Leveling Posted: 17 Feb 2005 05:13 AM PST Hi wooken, In one of my previous posts -just for once- I used capital letters because I was under the impression this message did not get across easily: PROJECT DOES NOT ASSIGN PEOPLE TO TASKS It's not forbidden to keep asking for it, but that won't change Project's behaviour. Assignment units NEVER EVER automatically adjust to max. units Max.Units never ever influence assignment units. I don't know how else sto explain it, sorry. -- Jan De Messemaeker Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional http://users.online.be/prom-ade/index.htm 32-495-300 620 "wooken" <microsoft.com> schreef in bericht news:com... on people out 2 that posting. availability have gets people 3d is So get in can one covers bericht be my were If task the be settings |
| Posted: 17 Feb 2005 12:25 AM PST On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 05:30:51 -0500, Steve House [MVP] donned fireproof underwear and scratched on the wall: Oooh, that's sweet. Thanks. I was recently trying to figure out the same thing, but hadn't gotten back to it. -- kai www.perfectreign.com a palm tree nodded at me last night, he said, you look so pale... |
| Showing % complete on baselines Posted: 16 Feb 2005 11:29 PM PST What if your baseline was, say 10 days. Now you've begun work and after 5 days you realize that it will take another 15 days before you finish it. In other words your original schedule was off and it really should have been 20 days. As of this point your task is 25% complete. But 5 days represents 50% of your baseline. Are you saying you want the baseline taskbar to show that the task is 50% complete, not the 25% it really is???? -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "Bill Fitz-Holland" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Can I use small business server to host project server? Posted: 16 Feb 2005 11:19 PM PST Ok so what will be the cofiguration. We have a server with small business 2003 on it and 5 CALs. VPN connection and remote access. What would be necessary for us and have access to project via LAN and WAN working simultaneously on the same project. Thx "Rod Gill" wrote: |
| Combining Resource and Task Tables Posted: 16 Feb 2005 02:59 PM PST Hi Renee, The FAQ I gave the address of explains it all, and the fact that you re still "trying" means apparently you did not read the FAQ. There is no such thing a a resource visible in the task usage view. What you see in the Tak usage view (and in the Resource Usage View!) are ASSIGNMENTS. Assignments have custom fields of their own. If you want to show data from a resource custom field in the asignment custom fields you have to copy the data, either manually or through a VBA macro. Manually, you can insert the field in the resource usage view and copy it from the resource to the assignment lines (f.i. by Ctrl+D). It will then be visible in the Resource Usage view a well. There is an example of VBA code in the FAQ. HTH -- Jan De Messemaeker Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional http://users.online.be/prom-ade/index.htm 32-495-300 620 "Renee Voice" <Renee microsoft.com> schreef in bericht news:com... to enter On apparently information, version.) assigned from into the |
| MS Project Actual vs Planned duration and effort Posted: 16 Feb 2005 01:57 PM PST The is a bit of a problem here in that I'm not sure if you're clear on the distinction between work/effort hours and duration hours but assuming you are, here's how you would go about it. Enter the Actual Start and Actual Finish dates for what they are and Actual Work as 16 hours. The actual duration is the amount of time when work *could* have taken place between the start and finish, whether it did or not, and will be calculated when you enter actual start and actual finish. The result would be: Actual start= whatever; Actual Finish = 3 workdays later; Actual Duration = 24 hours; Remaining duration = 0 hours; Actual Work = 16 hours; Remaining Work = 0 hours. -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "Muks" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
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