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- Linking tasks between projects?
- Black "Progress" line in the Project Center doesn't advance
- How does one set a floating task?
- How To Fix Blank Screen In MS Projects Program?
- How does resource allocation work?
- Project scheduling quirk
- PRINCE2
- Uploading changes to Project Server
- Leveling does not honor task links
- Resource availability
- Is MS Project right for me?
- Multiple Resources on one task
- Project Template
- removing resources from customer copy
- accuracy of escalated rates in payrates table
- Multiple Views open at once?
- Resource Information Dialog... Booking Type?
- Grouping / Categorizing resources in ERP
- Random Timing
- why is 1 week shown as 4 days?
- Project tasks add an assigment requires ID instead of index
- Managing multiple project plans
- Exporting to HTML
- how do I create more viewable lines in Task name field of project
| Linking tasks between projects? Posted: 28 Apr 2005 07:18 AM PDT RoseC wrote: I was pretty sure this was wrong but I tested it again just now and inserting a task into the project before the sucessor in a cross-project link does not break the link. Adding new tasks or moving the linked task does not cause the wrong task to be linked. -- Brian K - Project MVP http://www.projectified.com -- Senior Trainer - Electronic Arts -- QuantumPM Associate http://www.quantumpm.com |
| Black "Progress" line in the Project Center doesn't advance Posted: 28 Apr 2005 06:30 AM PDT texasroy -- You are misunderstanding how publishing works in Project Server. When you click Collaborate - Publish - New and Changed Assignments, doing so "pushes" the assignment information to each uers's timesheet in PWA and to the View resource assignments section of PWA. You must use Collaborate - Publish - Project Plan to "push" the data to the Project Center and detailed Project views in PWA. You can use Collaborate - Publish - All Information to "push" the data to all relevant areas of PWA. Hope this helps. -- Dale A. Howard [MVP] Enterprise Project Trainer/Consultant http://www.msprojectexperts.com "We wrote the book on Project Server" "texasroy" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| How does one set a floating task? Posted: 27 Apr 2005 11:05 PM PDT If you want to show only the slack, make the new item in the Bar Style from "Finish" to "Late Finish". texasroy "texasroy" wrote: |
| How To Fix Blank Screen In MS Projects Program? Posted: 27 Apr 2005 08:54 PM PDT Hi , Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :) Have you tries uninstalling and reinstalling Project? 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 Puzzled wrote: |
| How does resource allocation work? Posted: 27 Apr 2005 03:39 PM PDT Hi Dave, Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :) You might like to have a look at my series on Microsoft Project in the TechTrax ezine, particularly #10 - Multiple Resource Assignments, at this site: http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc or this: http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMFrame.asp?CMD=ArticleSearch&AUTH=23 (Perhaps you'd care to rate the article before leaving the site, :) Thanks.) 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 Dave H wrote: |
| Posted: 27 Apr 2005 02:24 PM PDT That was it. Many Thanks! "pratta" wrote: |
| Posted: 27 Apr 2005 12:49 PM PDT Rod Thanks, I agree - by converting Product Break-down structures to WBS, working out the stage plans, adding all the stage, highlight and checkpoint reports, logs, etc. But then again as we know...PRINCE2 is 'non-presciptive' - I think I'll just use Project as I always have as a checklist and tailor P2 to what I need from it. Dave "Rod Gill" wrote: |
| Uploading changes to Project Server Posted: 27 Apr 2005 12:47 PM PDT You're welcome, new2msp . I hope you get an answer from there :-) Mike Glen MS Project MVP new2msp wrote: |
| Leveling does not honor task links Posted: 27 Apr 2005 08:28 AM PDT Hi Al Perhaps with multi projects there is a problem with sharing resource pools and calendars. Are you using a resource pool? Do the resources operating from a base calendar. If not, I'd try setting tools /Resource Sharing/ to a single respool file with only resources in it. Try it on a test suite of of projects without local resources and then re-try levelling. Then scale up if it works. Regards.........Pratta "Al Gardiner" wrote: |
| Posted: 27 Apr 2005 06:05 AM PDT I have Project 2003. Yes, the general tab under resource info. I entered 9/1/05 to 8/31/06 0% 9/1/06 to 8/31/06 100% "JulieD" wrote: |
| Posted: 27 Apr 2005 06:05 AM PDT Becky: I agree with Dave that you cannot really track resources without tracking the tasks that the resource perform. The PMO I lead was trying to do just that but were not getting even ball park accurate data. Here's an example. If you track on the high level, you assign resources at percentages. Jane is working 4 projects at 25%. But it is very possible that several times in the specific projects she must work full time on specific tasks - maybe all 4 project at once (you have no way of knowing if you do not track to the task level). Without task scheduling in each project, you cannot see this conflict and you think all 4 projects can finish when planned. You will need some type of enterprise project management software to do what your management wants - and you will need to plan each project down to a fairly low level of detail to ensure you do not have major overallocation of resources. While Project Server is a good tool to do all this, if does require at least one high level of expert (your guru) and the PMs working in the environment need to be fairly proficient in the tool. texasroy "davegb" wrote: |
| Multiple Resources on one task Posted: 27 Apr 2005 04:10 AM PDT quite so :) -- Cheers JulieD "Jan De Messemaeker" <jandemes at prom hyphen ade dot be> wrote in message news:phx.gbl... ----snip--- |
| Posted: 26 Apr 2005 02:46 PM PDT Rod, Thank you very much for the helpful advice! I think you're right...I need to hold a kickoff meeting and figure out who, what, when, where and why and then task it all together. The hardest part is getting people to cooperate! This company has NEVER had any sort of project plan before for any sort of project and the processes stink! I feel I have a long road ahead of me on this one, but I always love a good challenge! :) Thanks Again! Shanna "Rod Gill" wrote: |
| removing resources from customer copy Posted: 26 Apr 2005 11:59 AM PDT In article <#phx.gbl>, "Jan De Messemaeker" <jandemes at prom hyphen ade dot be> wrote: Jan, Yes, actually I did, but since I had calculation off, everything "stayed put" until all the changes were made. I wouldn't guarantee the method I described works 100% for all situations (sometimes Project has a mind of its own), but my intent was to alert jag to the idea of constraining tasks so he could "lock in" the timeline generated by leveling. John |
| accuracy of escalated rates in payrates table Posted: 26 Apr 2005 09:51 AM PDT As John said, Project is a schedule and cost ESTIMATING program, not an accounting or financial program. Even it's "actuals" are really usually only close approximations. Your example of +/- $500 in a 100 kilobuck estimate may not be acceptable for financial accounting but in a discipline where +/- 10% accuracy is consdered to be spot-on and +/- 25% is more the general the norm, such precision would have us all dumb-struck with wonder at being witness to a true miracle. <grin> No offense intended but I have to wonder if your organization hasn't fallen into the trap of thinking that precision in the calculations somehow drives the real world into compliance, confusing precision with accuracy. No matter how precise your estimate calcaulations are today of what projected costs several years down the road will be, I seriously doubt if their accuracy would be even within the ballpark. You may calculate to 4 decimal precision but I'd wager the real world accuracy when you get there and compare actuals with estimates is no better than integer level precsion or worse. There are just too many variable out there in that untidy real world to take them all into account. In short, for a project estimate to be within $500 in 100 kilbucks is incredibly small stuff and a manager who wants to remain sane shouldn't sweat the small stuff. Even a $10,000 deviation would be close enough for effective project managment. -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "Bill F." <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Posted: 26 Apr 2005 08:52 AM PDT If you are able to, tile your screens on top of one another instead of the normal side by side. This will then let you pull the split to the bottom of the first screen i.e. above the split will be on the top or 1st screen and below the split will be on the bottom or 2nd screen. "KellyB" wrote: |
| Resource Information Dialog... Booking Type? Posted: 26 Apr 2005 08:21 AM PDT thanx |
| Grouping / Categorizing resources in ERP Posted: 26 Apr 2005 07:25 AM PDT Hi Deborah, Try posting on the server newsgroup. Please see FAQ Item: 24. Project Newsgroups. FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at this web address: http://www.mvps.org/project/. Mike Glen Project MVP Deborah R wrote: |
| Posted: 26 Apr 2005 07:12 AM PDT In article <#phx.gbl>, "JulieD" <net.au> wrote: Julie, I agree fully. After I wrote my response I began to really question the point of "random" scheduling of classes. There are so many reasons why it is a really bad idea for students, the instructor and the institution. For example, if English is randomly scheduled then all other classes at the institution would also need to be on the same random schedule so that students who are taking more than just English (probably most of them) could get to their other classes. It certainly is an interesting post, but in my view, totally impractical. John |
| why is 1 week shown as 4 days? Posted: 26 Apr 2005 05:35 AM PDT Hi Nina, Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-) You might like to see FAQ Item: 5. Default Working Hours 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 Nina wrote: |
| Project tasks add an assigment requires ID instead of index Posted: 26 Apr 2005 01:43 AM PDT Hi, The ghelp I mentioned is the description of all objects and methods as obtained from the Object Browser in VBE. It says Index is either the ID or the Name, not a different integer, and it says ID where I saisdit does. Hope this helps, -- Jan De Messemaeker Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional http://users.online.be/prom-ade/ +32-495-300 620 "Diek" <microsoft.com> schreef in bericht news:com... reply, the are |
| Managing multiple project plans Posted: 25 Apr 2005 07:35 PM PDT Hi Andy, Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :) You might like to have a look at my series on Microsoft Project in the TechTrax ezine, particularly #17 & 18 on Multiple Projects, at this site: http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc or this: http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMFrame.asp?CMD=ArticleSearch&AUTH=23 (Perhaps you'd care to rate the article before leaving the site, :) Thanks.) 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 Andy wrote: |
| Posted: 25 Apr 2005 07:09 PM PDT Thanks everyone! It's working! "JulieD" wrote: |
| how do I create more viewable lines in Task name field of project Posted: 25 Apr 2005 06:18 PM PDT In article <O#$phx.gbl>, "Jan De Messemaeker" <jandemes at prom hyphen ade dot be> wrote: Jan, On the surface that is what might be assumed. However, the poster may have been using the word "charter" in it's true context, namely a predefined activity. And perhaps the intent was to have that predefined activity repeated more than once in the plan. Not a recommended way of defining tasks in a project plan, but many people do use repeat task names. Nothing is quite what it seems. John |
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