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| Posted: 17 Apr 2005 10:48 PM PDT Pffft. I wouldn't know but we will check on that ASAP. Yes, it problably is the work done on Nonworking hours that is moved by Project. (again negative comment left out). we see no solution except changing 600 calenders ;-( that will be a no go for sure. Fortunately the totals add up and reports are correct. This definately is a nice lesson learned: 1. import actuals in MPP files 2. publish, and overwrite actuals (through republish) 3. turn on managed time periodes (cannot be done earlier as then it's not possible to overwrite/insert past actuals 4. change calenders. or perhaps PDS but we lack the knowledge. Thanks "Jan De Messemaeker" wrote: |
| arrow keys don't move from active cell to adjacent cell Posted: 17 Apr 2005 01:47 PM PDT You're welcome, Catherine :-) We've all been there! Mike Glen MS Project MVP Catherine wrote: |
| Project Summary: Can I omit final phase? Posted: 17 Apr 2005 05:10 AM PDT Hi Spinner, I'm not sure what you're after. Any project can show the Project Summary via Tools/Options.../View tab - at the bottom right. The project summary measures the working time duration between the start of the first task in the project to the end of the last task. Equally, all other summaries measure from the start of its first task the end of its last task. What you could do is to insert a new task just under the project summary task and indent all but the last phase, which will give you a summary of the first 6 phases. Mike Glen Project MVP Spinner wrote: |
| Posted: 16 Apr 2005 11:06 AM PDT Hi, See my other post. This makes me absolutely certain it's not "leveling", it's the nonworking days in the calendar. People always blame leveling for calculations it never does... HTH -- Jan De Messemaeker Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional http://users.online.be/prom-ade/ +32-495-300 620 "Arlo" <microsoft.com> schreef in bericht news:com... in so resources. Level get actuals!! starts |
| OT: suggestions on free Gantt software Posted: 16 Apr 2005 10:03 AM PDT Inside every 1 year project is a 2 year project bursting to get out!! Inside a 5 year project is a ........ well it may never finish! There is a significantly better chance of the project finishing if it was broken down into 10 six month projects. Each sub-project should deliver some business value. -- Rod Gill Project MVP "Steve House [Project MVP]" <send.hotmail.com> wrote in message news:phx.gbl... |
| Print Gannt/Entry Table View without numbering the first page only??? Posted: 15 Apr 2005 06:14 PM PDT Hi abqhusker , Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :) You could print page 1 and then change the headers and print the rest. Select the pages to print in the File/Print dialog. 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 wrote: |
| Project 2002 weighing subtasks Posted: 15 Apr 2005 02:22 PM PDT A fact of life you have to deal with is Project uses duration as its key metric. Duration is the length of time from when work begins until work ends. It is not the same thing as work and relates to work by way of the resource's effort units. When you have a summary tasks with several subtasks, its duration is from when the earliest subtask begins until when the latest subtask finshes. As such your weighting of the contribution of subtasks has no meaning when taken simply as it stands. You can't say that THIS 10 day task contributes 10% of the duration of the summary while THAT 10 day task constributes 30%. What you can say is that task A requires X hours of work, Task Y is 1.5X hours of work, Task Z is 3.5X hours of work etc which gives you ratios I think you're looking for. But the fact that Task Y contributes 15% of the total work on the summary task does not mean necessarily that it contributes 15% of the duration of the summary task. The effort units of the resources assigned, the resource calendars controlling when each task takes place, and the linking between the various subtasks will also enter into that equation. For example, it's completely possible that your 5 subtasks aren't linked sequentially and so will take place concurrently. If that was the case, the summary task duration is going to equal the duration of the longest running task, most likely your Task 5 if all the resources are assigned 100% and have the same calendar, and so in that sense Task 5 would contribute 35% of the work but 100% of the duration. -- HTH Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "RachelN" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Planning without start and finish dates Posted: 15 Apr 2005 10:50 AM PDT Yes, so don't print start and finish dates! Just select Format, Timescale and change the labels to Week1 etc. You also need to remove dates form Milestones by selecting Format, Bar Styles.. -- Rod Gill Project MVP "hidden" <com> wrote in message news:%phx.gbl... |
| Copy Existing Project into Template Posted: 15 Apr 2005 07:33 AM PDT Adding a note to Gerard's answer. You say you want to copy % complete. Almost everything you say you want to include in the tmeplate makes sense except that. A template is a device to create a NEW project file wimilar to this one without having to re-invent the wheel. Since a new file is (should be) created before any work is done on the new project, one should not include any baseline or actuals - costs, % completes, start or finish dates, etc in the template as that information only goes in after the new project is finalized and for actuals, after work begins. -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "roadkill" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| show deleted tasks compared to baseline Posted: 15 Apr 2005 01:48 AM PDT Hello Arlo, Instead of deleting these tasks, I'ld set their Duration to 0, so their Work and Cost would be set to 0 too. Gérard Ducouret "Arlo" <microsoft.com> a écrit dans le message de news:com... the |
| Report of estimated % complete. Posted: 15 Apr 2005 01:39 AM PDT BCWS represents the amount of work that should have been done up to the status date, expressed in terms of its expected costs. BCWP represents the amount of work that actually WAS done up to the same status date, also expressed in terms of what you planned to pay for it. ACWP is the amount you actually DID pay to get that work done. It's broken down this way to allow you to track performance against both schedule and budget independently. BAC is Budget At Completion, the total expected cost of doing all the work. It's the same number as Baseline Cost. So BCWS/BAC represents the % Work Complete you should have achieved by the status date. BCWP/BAC represents the % Work Complete you actually did achieve by the status date. BCWP/BCWS give you SPI, Schedule Performance Index - <1 means you're behind and >1 means you're ahead. For consistency, make sure you understand there is a very big difference between % Complete and % Work Complete. % Complete refers to duration but % Work Complete refers to, well, work. How could they be different? It happens whenever you have work contours. You have a task that starts Monday at 8am and finishes Friday at 5pm. It's applying paint where there has to be overnight drying time between coats. The resource puts in 1 hour each day on Mon, Tue, Wed, and Thur applying the initial coats and then does all the finish work on Fri taking 8 hours. Duration is 40 hours, total work is 12 hours. It is now 5pm Thursday and everything is on schedule. % Complete = 4d/5d or 80%, % Work Complete = 4h/12h or 33% % Physical Complete - essentially meaningless concept in this case IMO. -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "DaveFusion" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Formula Not working at the customize enterprise project Field Leve Posted: 14 Apr 2005 05:38 PM PDT Hi Dale, Hit the F9 key and it doesn't work. Is there a difference in formula calculation method from tasks to projects view? I just want a summary rollup of the indicators from tasks to projects view in PWA. Each task has it own results through the indicator from red, yellow or green. I want a summary rollup view in PWA that indicates a red or yellow if only one red or yellow in the tasks is shown. This will indicate to mgmt that they need to drill down further on the project. If it is green in PWA then that means all tasks are green. -Napone "Dale Howard [MVP]" wrote: |
| Can you convert a Microsoft Project doc. into PDF form? Posted: 14 Apr 2005 04:53 PM PDT Hi sdblondy, Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-) Please see FAQ Item: 16. Project Viewer. 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 Project MVP "sdblondy" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Posted: 14 Apr 2005 02:28 PM PDT Scott , First of all you have to ensure that your project's status date is the same date as the week ending date of the time you are entering. Second of all you have to level after entering actuals. Hopefully you're dependencies are OK. I have seen Project push an end date by as much as 3 months after entering actuals and then when you level the date comes back in. So that you don't get too confused when entering actuals turn off your Auto Calculation. Enter your actuals. Then turn it back on and level. "com" wrote: |
| Posted: 14 Apr 2005 01:25 PM PDT Shaun, There is a BUG in Project 2002 and 2003 whereby baselining selected tasks does NOT calculate right. Our company has gotton a hotfix for Project 2003 and at that time Microsoft was NOT sure whether or not they were going to implement into 2002. Below is the link to the hotfix. To baseline change of scope items highlight the task you want and select Tools, Tracking, Save Baseline. Check the Selected Tasks check box and check the first item only - To all Summary Tasks. Here is the link to the hotfix that fixes the selected tasks calcuation issue for Project 2003 - http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=891203 "Shaun" wrote: |
| Completion of tasks in MS Projects Posted: 14 Apr 2005 11:10 AM PDT Adding a comment to Jan's answer - if you're asking because you need to preserve your original estimates of the work after you update the task with actual work, that's what a baseline is for. If you save a baseline before beginning to post actual performance (as you should), after entering the actual work into a task the Work field will show what it actually took to complete the task while the Baseline Work field will hold what you originally thought it was going to take. -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "Amanda" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Why is it not good practice to link to summary tasks? Posted: 13 Apr 2005 01:21 PM PDT I agree totally with Jack D and Pratta - Project was made to be very flexible. The allow dependencies to summary accounts in case you want to do a very high level plan that is not resource loaded. If you have a REAL plan , no matter the planning tool, you DO NOT want to have dependencies on Summary accounts. To better understand this you need to understand the leveling engine and how it works. Use summary accounts FUBAR the leveling engine. "pratta" wrote: |
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