| 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
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| 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
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| List Predecessor name instead of number Posted: 18 Feb 2005 01:14 PM PST That worked nicely Jan,
Once again, thanks for your efforts
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| Schedule Validation 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.
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| File Size Depends on Where Stored ! ? ! Posted: 18 Feb 2005 06:45 AM PST No thoughts. An interesting phenomenon though.
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| 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.
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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.
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| 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)
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| Filter: today plus # of days 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.
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kai:/> format c:
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| General Overview?? 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
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Start versus Actual Start... 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
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 24 hour working 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.
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| 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????
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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.
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