Selecting the Correct Edition Microsoft Project |
- Selecting the Correct Edition
- Assigning Multiple resources to a task
- Creating work bucket tasks
- Date Range Work Formula
- Schedule report analysis
- Setting Gantt Date Range
- SELECT ALL and ROW buttons are not showing
- Removing Team Status requests
- hiding summary tasks with no groups and sort by start
- Urgent! Project Summary question
- customize bars by groups or names
- Timescaled Baseline & BCWP Output
- Can Resources Work More Than 24 hours Per Day?
- Applying a custom calendar to a project
- Forums for MS Project professionals Jobs
- Milestone
- sorting
- how do i represent ongoing tasks?
- MSP extends the dates of my task.
- total work?
- Simultaneous task resourcing
- 98 & 00 Version Comparison
- Data validation in MS Project 2003?
- Task Start/Finish Days
- Deleting a calendar in MSProject 2003.
| Posted: 24 Jun 2005 01:11 PM PDT Project in any edition is installed as single user software. There is no difference between the two versions as far as the number of people who can use the software or access a file at the same time. Basically it is like word or excel or other microsoft apps. If it is installed on the machine you are at, you can run it. The first one to open a file with that software is the one who has write access to it. Others can open it for reading, but they won't get to see any changes until the person with it open saves changes, and then the person who is reading closes and re-opens the file. Judging by what you say, Project Standard should be sufficient. It is up to them to decide how many licences they need for active users. -- -Jack ... For Microsoft Project information and macro examples visit http://masamiki.com/project or http://zo-d.com/blog/index.html .. "cathagge" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... time. appreciated!! |
| Assigning Multiple resources to a task Posted: 24 Jun 2005 12:26 PM PDT Lak, Please also check your Duration and Work fields by inserting them into the table you are viewing (if not already viewable there). My guess is that the Duration is 40 hours or 5 days, and the Work is 200 hours. This would happen if you did not remove your resources from the task prior to changing the Duration to 40 hours. This can be corrected by changing the Duration to "1d" or "8h", leaving the resources in place (and assuming that the task type is fixed units with the effort driven box checked). I hope this helps.... :) -- Don L. "LS" wrote: |
| Posted: 24 Jun 2005 10:45 AM PDT Ahhh, never mind. I think I got it. THANKS "Gérard Ducouret" wrote: |
| Posted: 24 Jun 2005 10:00 AM PDT Not Really. Ultimately what I'm trying to get to is a view that shows by task, the number of FTE's needed broken down by total and by month. I've been able to calculate and FTE for the year because I can create a formula using the total work field. I'm not able to create my formula broken down by month because I'm not able to calculate the work being performed for a specific range of time. I have been able to export the Resource Usage view into excel and perform my calculations there but I'd like to be able avoid doing that each time I want to see the data by FTE. "Gérard Ducouret" wrote: |
| Posted: 24 Jun 2005 08:38 AM PDT Dale: Thank you very much for the quick response. Your answer was very helpful and confirmed my suspicion about that particular feature. Also, thanks for the link. If anyone else out there has any ideas or other links, I would appreciate your input and suggestions. Again, thanks Dale. "Dale Howard [MVP]" wrote: |
| Posted: 24 Jun 2005 08:29 AM PDT And what happened? If you are just wanting to display (ie: present on the screen) then double click on the timescale header and adjust it until two weeks covers the screen. -- -Jack ... For Microsoft Project information and macro examples visit http://masamiki.com/project or http://zo-d.com/blog/index.html .. "LarryG" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... Project | am upcoming display |
| SELECT ALL and ROW buttons are not showing Posted: 24 Jun 2005 07:37 AM PDT Perfect. The column size was set to "0". -- Thanks! "Dale Howard [MVP]" wrote: |
| Posted: 24 Jun 2005 02:57 AM PDT Hi David, You are very welcome and thanks for the feedback. Julie "jumpsystems" wrote: |
| hiding summary tasks with no groups and sort by start Posted: 23 Jun 2005 02:49 PM PDT No problem. Glad to help -- -Jack ... For Microsoft Project information and macro examples visit http://masamiki.com/project or http://zo-d.com/blog/index.html .. "Tom" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... work: your tasks without also are implementing to |
| Urgent! Project Summary question Posted: 23 Jun 2005 01:19 PM PDT Jack: Thanks! for your reply. I'm talking about in PWA..... Project center->projects->gantt view..... Thanks! Sankar "JackD" wrote: |
| customize bars by groups or names Posted: 23 Jun 2005 11:04 AM PDT Haha, why not? "JackD" wrote: |
| Timescaled Baseline & BCWP Output Posted: 23 Jun 2005 10:31 AM PDT 1) If you have added any tasks then those additions do not get rolled up into the topline baseline, but they will show in the export data. Sumary task baselines are NOT changed when you edit or change existing baseline data from their subtasks. That could be a reason. 2) Is the "baseline" valid? If you get good data from one baseline (Baseline5) and not from the other it would suggest that the other baseline has a problem of one sort or another. Perhaps the values in that baseline are bad. I'd insert the relevant baseline fields (start, finish, cost ) for both baseline and baseline5 and see if there are any discrepancies. -- -Jack ... For Microsoft Project information and macro examples visit http://masamiki.com/project or http://zo-d.com/blog/index.html .. "roadkill" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... project working on inconsistant of Analysis or there a to happening bulb |
| Can Resources Work More Than 24 hours Per Day? Posted: 23 Jun 2005 10:29 AM PDT If I have one request of the Project world it is that there is eventually a clear universally accepted notion that Resources can be people, teams, robots, machines, bacteria etc. The fact that the ones that can't report for themselves must have agents to do it for them, does not mean they can't stand alone or in groups; that they do not have profound effects on Project outcomes and in know way should they have to suffer levels of abstraction as to their productivity. (100% is absolute.). I would never schedule or plan anything in other than a 24 hour project calendar. It makes no sense and only works if you are willing to accept a large amount of variation in you resource availability or restriction to the application of them. "Steve House [Project MVP]" <send.hotmail.com> wrote in message news:phx.gbl... |
| Applying a custom calendar to a project Posted: 23 Jun 2005 09:16 AM PDT Hi Dave, Create the custom calendar (Tools>Change Working Time> New). You will also want to make sure that the definition of hours per day and hours per week matches the calendar you created and change the default start and end times in the Tool>Options calendar tab. Apply the custom calendar to the project in Project>Project Information in the calendar drop-down. Change the Gantt chart to display the nonworking time from the custom calendar. Format>Timescale and select the custom calendar from the Nonworking time tab. If you have created resources, check the Resource Sheet and change the Base Calendar for the resources to the custom calendar as necessary. Tasks without Task calendars will use the custom calendar for scheduling. Hope this helps. Let us know how you get along. Julie "Dave Shaw [MVP]" wrote: |
| Forums for MS Project professionals Jobs Posted: 23 Jun 2005 09:14 AM PDT > Northrop Grumman is always looking for 'experienced' project Ha! I just left NG. Actually, I'm looking for a scheduler: with EVMS experience with a clearance with moderate to advanced Project skills who lives in the Denver area dave |
| Posted: 23 Jun 2005 08:10 AM PDT A summary task summarizes the tasks below. The duration of the summary task is the elapsed duration from the earliest of the tasks it summarizes to the finish of the latest task it summarizes. You can not edit this duration. -- -Jack ... For Microsoft Project information and macro examples visit http://masamiki.com/project or http://zo-d.com/blog/index.html .. "Colleen" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... to. I |
| Posted: 23 Jun 2005 07:44 AM PDT even doesn't work "Rod Gill" <rod AT project-systems DOT co DOT nz> wrote in message news:phx.gbl... |
| how do i represent ongoing tasks? Posted: 23 Jun 2005 06:59 AM PDT There is no such thing as an unending task in a project. Tasks are defined as physical activities with an observable beginning and ending point. Some tasks may be indeterminate in that they extend for the duration of the project however long it lasts, such as the project manager's own job, and Julie's suggestion to look up hammock tasks is how you can handle them, but even hammock tasks will have a definite, albeit flexible, scheduled end date. -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "Ian Thomas" <Ian microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| MSP extends the dates of my task. Posted: 23 Jun 2005 06:24 AM PDT There is only a limited amount of mind-reading that Project can do for you. You've said your task is a fixed duration task. The duration is the number of working time units between when work is first performed and when it ends. "Fixed duration" for a 5 day task that is presently starting on Monday does not mean regardless of when it starts it will always end on Friday - it means that whenever it starts it will always finish 5 days later. My task is to assmble 50 widgets and I can assemble 10 widgets a day. If I start on Monday, I'll finish the last widget on Friday, 5 days later. But if I get delayed and don't start until Wednesday, that doesn't mean I only have to assemble 30 widgets - I still have to do 50 and I still can only do 10 per day. So the finish date has to change to the following Tuesday because that's when my 5 days of duration will pass after the start on Wednesday AND that really is the earliest possible date that I could finish all 50 of the widgets I'm required to assemble in order to complete the Project's deliverable. If your task is to do 150 widgets and you assign 3 resources to it, that means each resource will do 50 widgets. Whether they work together or separately, each resource will be required to do 50 widgets. 99% of the time that is an accurate description of the physical nature of the work and Project has no way of knowing if this is one of the 1% that are the exception. A second misconception evident in your post is just what the task type means and where it has some effect. Fixed duration, fixed work, and fixed units all refer to the identity W=D*U that is at the core of all Project's resource calculations. Remember your basic high school algebra - any linear equation (y=mx+b) such as this one has a constant, an independent variable, and a dependent variable. You change the independent variable and the equation calculates the dependent variable. In Project, "b" is zero and so the equation is "y=mx". Project lets you pick what term is the constant, the "m", and what term is the independent variable, the "x". When you're editing a resource assignment, that is changing one of the terms Work, Duration, or Units, the item you are changing is the independent variable and the task type setting instructs Project what to hold constant. If you're changing Units and you want MSP to recalculate work, set the task to fixed duration. If you're changing the Units and want Project to recalculate the duration, set the task type to fixed work. If you're changing the Units and the task type is left on Fixed Units (the default) Project behaves as if the type were Fixed Work this go around. But if you're NOT changing one of the values W, D, or U for resource assignments that have already been made, the task type setting has absolutely no effect whatsoever. In your "problem" example, you weren't changing any of those values when you change the date he starts on the task - the work he's required to do is the same, the duration for your resource is the same, and the units he's assigned are the same - you've merely delayed the start date when he begins to assemble his 50 widgets. And this is crucial to remember, as far as these computations are concerned, Project doesn't know that any other resources assigned to the task even exist. When you have multiple resources each of them is considered to be independent of all the others and the task duration shown on the Gantt chart is measured from the time the earliest starting resource begins until the latest finishing resource is done. But the W=D*U formula looks at each individual resource in a vacuum. If Joe, Bill, and Fred are all scheduled to start together and work for 10 days, then Bill is delayed a few days, Joe and Fred will start their 10 together and Bill will come in a couple of days after. After Joe and Fred have done their 10 days they go away. Fred continues work by himself after they're gone until he's done his 10 day fair share of the work. The durations for each resource's task have not changed, they're each working for 10 days at 100% doing 1/3 of the total output of the task, just like before and so task type settings have no effect at all, there's nothing to recalculate. What has changed is the total time between when the early bird gets started and the slow bird finishes, ie, the date when all the required work of the task finally gets done. Anything else is going to require hand adjustments on your part. -- 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... |
| Posted: 23 Jun 2005 02:52 AM PDT I don't know of any way to show work without assigning resources. However, I have used the following technique for years to determine how many resources are needed on a project. I manage I.S. projects so there are multiple skill sets involved: Business Analysts, Systems Analysts, Developers, QA staff and business reps. It is important for me to know how much work belongs to each of these groups so assigning a skill set to each task is a useful exercise. If you set up the plan properly you can adjust the "max units" for each of the skill sets to assign different numbers of resources to the project and see the effects on end date. "Itai Raz" <com> wrote in message news:googlegroups.com... |
| Posted: 22 Jun 2005 11:16 PM PDT If you have 2 tasks and 1 resource can work on both of them them simultaneously for two hours and complete them, that implies he could complete just one of them in only 1 hour, in other words, it requires 1 man-hour of effort to produce each task's deliverable. A 2 hour duration task that produces 1 man-hour of output means that the resource works on it at a 50% allocation - each hour of task time produces 1/2 hour of work output. So for your 2 tasks, 1 resource, with work on both tasks together completed in 2 hours, enter them as 2 2-hour duration tasks and assign your resource at 50% units to each one. -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "Nathan Jones" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Posted: 22 Jun 2005 10:37 PM PDT In addition to what Jan mentioned, 98 is limited to a maximum of 9 levels of indent in the WBS outline and material resources don't exist (as I recall). -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "meljay" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Data validation in MS Project 2003? Posted: 22 Jun 2005 06:17 PM PDT Project lets allows setting it so that it must be in the predefined list. That is about it. -- -Jack ... For Microsoft Project information and macro examples visit http://masamiki.com/project or http://zo-d.com/blog/index.html .. "Steve House [Project MVP]" <send.hotmail.com> wrote in message news:phx.gbl... and |
| Posted: 22 Jun 2005 02:54 PM PDT I don't want to specify a date, the finish date could be any Friday or also a Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday, depending upon where the previous task ends. I have gotten around this for now by coding a 1 minute predecessor task with a calendar where all the Fridays are blocked out. That way it can only start on a Mon, Tue, Wed, or Thur, and will finish on Friday or before. Thanks for the suggestion, Betty "Nathan Jones" wrote: |
| Deleting a calendar in MSProject 2003. Posted: 22 Jun 2005 01:33 PM PDT Thank you for the quick response. However, I had gone there prior to posting the question. What I am seeing are the default calendars and a calendar I added. However, there are other calendars that were added by a client who gave me this schedule. There are about 4 or 5 of these added calendars. None of these calendars are showing up in the tools/organize/calendar tab. And, none of these have been assigned to an activity (with the exception of the one I added). Why aren't these other calendars showing up in the above add/remove tab? "Gérard Ducouret" wrote: |
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