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- How do you account for asset costs in Project?
- Affect on SPI?
- Predecessors & Successors
- How do I show the date a task's baseline was set in Project?
- Saving reports generated in Project
- NonWorking time for a resource affecting standard calendar
- Customising Task Fields
- Notes not displayed completely & Text Styles not getting saved
- force specific period ending dates in resource usage
- Sorting "Who Does What" Report by Start Date
| How do you account for asset costs in Project? Posted: 16 Mar 2005 08:43 PM PST Steve: Thanks for your advice and insight. As you can tell, I'm new to Project. Do you have a reccomendation for accounting for these asset / facility costs? I could actually do most of the Project functions on Excel which would of course do the asset accounting, too. "Steve House [MVP]" wrote: |
| Posted: 16 Mar 2005 11:39 AM PST Steve, While I agree with your response, it did not answer my question. The question is, if a task is marked complete, then more work is added to the actuals later on, does this affect the SPI. Regardless of if this should be done, I am asking if the SPI is affected. Thanks, Joe "Steve House [MVP]" wrote: |
| Posted: 16 Mar 2005 09:50 AM PST The concept of linking the tasks is primarily of use in Critical Path Method scheduling. While too involved to go into detail here, it basically helps you to know what tasks are more important (critical) time wise, the ones that if they slip in time will result in delaying the end of your project. Without linking, you'd be doing what is called event driven scheduling, creating a list of tasks and checking them off as you to them. This works fine if you're the only one working on the project, or everyone knows their part and it's relationship to every one elses. Which is very rarely the case, even with relatively small projects. Just start asking for the information you need to create the links, and you'll find out how "out of sync" or "in sync" people really are. An analogy might be if you had a car with a stick shift. If you didn't know what the shift lever was for, you could drive around in first all the time, and pretty much get where you needed to go. But not very efficiently time-wise or fuel-wise. And you'd be in big trouble if you parked face in to a brick wall and didn't know how to use reverse! So if you don't set up dependencies, you end up with a nice list of tasks with no meaningful end date. My experience is that as the tasks slip, and in this envrionment, they usually do, we tell ourselves, "It's ok, we'll make it up on the next task". And seldom do. Then just as the project is supposed to finish, it comes as a big surprise that it's going to be late. Go figure! Some years ago, when a client company's VP was telling me what he wanted from me as a consultant, he said he wanted to know why he had so many "100 day projects that were 100 day projects until day 99". In other words, to achive disciplined results, you need disciplined procedures. I suggest you try it without the links and see how useful it is. Then try it with the links on a few projects. This will take some effort the first few times. But my guess is, you'll be amazed at what can happen if you get the thing out of first gear! Best of luck. |
| How do I show the date a task's baseline was set in Project? Posted: 16 Mar 2005 09:09 AM PST Thanks, Unfortunately, as dates slip, WHEN a task was baselined can be controversial in my organization so manually inputting a date takes away from the integrity of the plan + NOW it would be nice to know when all those other tasks were baselined. I will use your solution for future baselines unless I get a better idea. Take care-----------john "Project Slave" wrote: |
| Saving reports generated in Project Posted: 16 Mar 2005 08:09 AM PST YES!!! I'd love to dump the report into Excel. It's in an spreadsheet format and should dump easily. How do I do that? "RogerBE" wrote: |
| NonWorking time for a resource affecting standard calendar Posted: 16 Mar 2005 05:25 AM PST Hi, Confirming what Julie said: never seen this. Vacation tasks a stupidity? I wrote an article recommending them, it's on my Website, and Micrososft published it in the latest Office Newsletter... -- Jan De Messemaeker Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional http://users.online.be/prom-ade/ +32-495-300 620 "need new ideas" <microsoft.com> schreef in bericht news:com... sets only name |
| Posted: 16 Mar 2005 03:07 AM PST Hi i'm not getting that on your file - i open your file and if i set all your tasks to 100% completed i get indicators and text without changing anything else!?! Cheers JulieD "Carpy" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Notes not displayed completely & Text Styles not getting saved Posted: 16 Mar 2005 02:53 AM PST Hi Sumit, Unfortunately I know as good as nothing about Server. Why not try the Server newsgroup on microsoft.public.project.server HTH -- Jan De Messemaeker Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional http://users.online.be/prom-ade/ +32-495-300 620 "Sumit" <microsoft.com> schreef in bericht news:com... styles CR. was for a first if |
| force specific period ending dates in resource usage Posted: 15 Mar 2005 01:53 PM PST In article <com>, "DWeb" <microsoft.com> wrote: DWeb, You're welcome. I glad I could be of assistance. John |
| Sorting "Who Does What" Report by Start Date Posted: 15 Mar 2005 12:11 PM PST In article <com>, Joseph G. <microsoft.com> wrote: Joseph, You're welcome. We are here to help and sometimes our experience can make this go a little faster. John |
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