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- I have a project task that has a variable length, for example +/-.
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| I have a project task that has a variable length, for example +/-. Posted: 22 Jan 2005 03:41 PM PST Tasks by definition have an exact duration. You might not know precisely what it will be ahead of time but it is exactly however long it takes the resource doing the work to complete the task's deliverable once he starts on it, no more and no less. One of the reasons for using scheduling software such as MS Project is help you get a handle on such things as duration estimates, by recalculating task lengths based on such things as resource availability and other responsibilities they may have at the same time as they are doing the work on their assigned tasks. I can't emphasize too strongly - the task duration is *never* the "window of opportunity" during which you need to get the task done, instead it is your best guess as to the concrete amount of time the resource will physically be working on the task between when he starts work on it and when it's finished. So in your plan you should use an estimate, based on the history of similar tasks from prior projects, your expertise in the subject matter of the project, perhaps conversation with the resource who will do the work, etc, as the expected duration for scheduling purposes. You might revise it later on as the plan matures. -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "danc" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Posted: 22 Jan 2005 10:33 AM PST Just to add another example of an SF relationship would be if I took my car to a mechanic and asked him to fix the brakes and the radio and that I needed the car at 5pm. If he scheduled his work, he might estimate that it would take an hour to fix the brakes, and 1.5 hrs to fix the radio. So he's plan to start at 2:30 in order to finish by 5 (If he was really smart, he'd start at 2 and give himself 30 min of slack, but that's another issue!). I see very few of these in the projects I've consulted on, but they are most common in event planning, like in Rod's example. Certain things must occur at certain times, so you schedule backward to meet a deadline. In production circles, it's similar to Just in Time deliveries to minimize inventory. |
| Posted: 22 Jan 2005 09:36 AM PST Thanks all for your reply. Bernard Steve House [MVP] wrote: |
| Posted: 22 Jan 2005 09:14 AM PST What he was telling you, Bernard, was that the behavior of Project as it comes from the box is exactly what you said in your question that you wanted it to do, so obviously you're expecting it to do something else. There are an average of 20 working days in a month. If I have a task that starts of this Monday, 24 Jan and I specify its duration to be 1 month, Project will show it ending on the 18th of Feburary, 1 month (20 working days) later. What date would you rather see it showing? -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "Bernard Bourée" <net> wrote in message news:phx.gbl... |
| CAN YOU CHANGE THE BAR LEGEND AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE THAT AUTO. Posted: 22 Jan 2005 08:43 AM PST Hi Paul, Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-) You might like to see FAQ Item: 33 What the Gantt Chart Legend Shows 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 PAUL wrote: |
| how do I edit personal macro in excel Posted: 21 Jan 2005 07:51 PM PST Hi Mary a better group to post in would be microsoft.public.excel.programming or microsoft.public.excel.misc however, to answer your question - personal.xls is opened automatically as a hidden file when you start excel, to unhide it choose windows / unhide ....just don't forget to hide it again after chaning your macro. Just a note though, you can change the macro without unhiding personal - open a workbook, press the ALT & F11 keys at the same time and you will end up in the VBE window, on the left (in the project explorer) you should be able to see (Personal.xls) - under that should be a folder called Macros and your macros will be in here. Hope this helps Cheers JulieD "MaryWilliams" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| budget without printer Project 2003 Posted: 21 Jan 2005 06:07 PM PST Hi James, What version of Project are you using and what operating system? When you installed the printer driver did you select a local or network printer? I routinely have to install printer drivers in the classrooms where I work and do just fine with a local printer (just driver), no plug and play. Julie "jamesT" wrote: |
| Could someone send me an example of a complete Project file? Posted: 21 Jan 2005 03:55 PM PST Thanks Julie "JulieD" wrote: |
| Posted: 21 Jan 2005 03:53 PM PST Hi as Jack said - the first is not possible, however to attempt to answer your second question - either choose format / timescale and set the timescale so you can see each day (or however you want) - or if that is not the problem, try file / print and have a look at the timescale options there - change it to ALL if it is only showing a date range. Cheers JulieD "wendy2of3" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| grouping not working in master project containing sub-projects Posted: 21 Jan 2005 11:55 AM PST Joel- Have you tried grouping only on 1 level, then sorting within that group to get the results you wish to see? I have learned that grouping more than one custom field in a master project gets tricky. See if you can accomplish what you want by grouping by custom field 1 and then sorting in the order you'd like. I also work with lots of custom fields, so I feel your pain! "Joel A Feldman" wrote: |
| Posted: 21 Jan 2005 09:57 AM PST Hi Frank, Welcome to the Microsoft Project newsgroup :-) Please see FAQ Item: 44. Printing Problems 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 com wrote: |
| How do I only print a certain date range in Project? Posted: 21 Jan 2005 06:39 AM PST You'll find top posting is the norm in this newsgroup, kai, and does not need the little "zinger" indicating you've corrected what you perceive as the poster's bad Usenet manners and habit. The questions and explanations posted here tend to be more involved than those in groups where the discussion follows the more conversational dialog style where comments in reply to a post are interwoven with the original text. Having the content of a new message in a thread appear as a single cohesive block of text at the top of the post, with previous messages from the thread intact below it in reverse posting order, newest message first, makes it far more readable. It's much easier for someone picking up the thread at a late stage to review its history. There are exceptions, of course, but in general it is much easier to follow the development of the discussion of a complex topic such as project management with top posted threads, IMHO. -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "Perfect Reign" <com> wrote in message news:supernews.com... |
| One task completes multiple subproject tasks Posted: 21 Jan 2005 05:37 AM PST A "task" is a block of work done by a specific resource over the course of a specific time interval and producing a specific deliverable and as such should have one and only one entry in the plan. Painting the north wall this week and painting the south wall next month are two different tasks even though they are both "painting the wall" activities and both are done by the same painter. Viewed in that light, is task 2 really the same task or is it two separate tasks that happen to have the same name? If it the same task, you have a problem with the work breakdown. If it's the same task in both summaries, it is producing a deliverable that is incorporated into the deliverables of both Summary A and Summary B. It's not a subtask of either one but rather a predecessor to both. You structure should probably look something like ... Task 2 Summary A Subtask 1 Subtask 3, predecessor Task 2 Summary B Subtask 4 Subtask 5, predecessor Task 2 .... or perhaps, though I favour the first version ... .... Summary A Subtask 1 Subtask 2 Subtask 3, predecessor Subtask 2 Summary B Subtask 4 Subtask 5, predecessor Subtask 2 ....... HTH -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "jkdallen" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Posted: 21 Jan 2005 05:04 AM PST Currently, there are no links between sub-projects (i.e. no external predecessors/successors). However, that is a task that I am pursuing, as part of enhancing the usability of their schedule to something more than wallpaper with dates. |
| resource leveling with recurring tasks Posted: 20 Jan 2005 06:53 PM PST Hi, Recurring tasks, when created, get 1000 as priority hence they are ignored by leveling. Open the "recurring task" ands reset the priority of the detail tasks to f.i. 500 HTH -- Jan De Messemaeker Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional http://users.online.be/prom-ade/index.htm 32-495-300 620 "TN" <microsoft.com> schreef in bericht news:com... there |
| Posted: 20 Jan 2005 02:47 PM PST Before you dispair at the extra work, consider what a milestone is. Many people think it is a date by which something should happen but that's not really true. Nor is it a date where you intend to report to a client or evaluate whether to proceed, etc. Instead, the milestone is an event that takes place in the project. It occurs on some date but the milestone is not the date, it is the event that occurs on that date. Let's say I'm creating a new video game. There might be a milestone "Storyline complete" and it takes place on whatever date we finish the storyline. That milestone may have deadline, say 15 May, that we have to hit in order to have the game to market for the Christmas season but the milestone is finishing the storyline, not the 15 May evaluation point. What this means is that in your subprojects, you're going to have milestaones that are unique to each subproject anyway and it would be very, very rare for those milestones to occur on the same date or at the same duration point into the project. What you *could* do to minimize the work, and would be a very good idea if the subprojects are similar in structure, is to create a template to base each of them on and that template would have to signifigant events in the project entered as milestones. Now when you create the subproject file based on that template, each one will have the "design complete" or whatever milestone in it just like it has the other tasks and Project will calculate the date that the event takes place in that particular subproject. If that meets the deadline, great. If it doesn't, you need to tweak things like staffing, etc, to get it to move to the required spot. What you can't do, in any circumstance, is simply declare it'll happen on some certain day and expect it to actually happen then when you leave the planning stage and go out and do the work - the real world just doesn't work that way. You might assert "design complete" happens on 15 May and use a constraint to force it to sit on that date in your plan, but if it takes 6 weeks to do the design and designing doesn't start until 01 May, that milestone will happen 15 June, a month late, no matter what your plan says. Hope this gives you some ideas you can use... -- Steve House [MVP] MS Project Trainer & Consultant Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs "judy" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... |
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