Re: How to I manage Carers and Patients (clients)? Project 2003?

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From: Steve House [MS Project MVP] (sjhouse.remove.this_at_to.send.hotmail.com)
Date: 11/20/04 

Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 05:20:41 -0500

A project schedule is by definition that detailed list of exactly what the
carer does for/to the client so you can't omit it. You have to define each
physical activity, you have to be able to quantify how long of them will
take to complete, and you have to define any logical relationships between
them (you have to drive the patient to the doctor before he can have his
physical exam, for example). Normally you should never specify the start
and end dates of the activities - Project's fundamental job is to calculate
those for you.

You would have a summary task ("Heading") for each client. Indented under
the client as subtasks would be every discrete activity the carer does for
him, detailed even down to the level of, say, if the care giver makes the
client's bed every day it would be listed with each day shown as a separate
task on a separate line "Make Bed Monday, Nov 22, 30 minutes", "Make Bed
Tuesday, Nov 23, 30 minutes", "Make Bed Wednesday, Nove 24, 30 minutes" ...
Because this sort of thing is open ended, there's probably never going to be
a time when you can say all the bed making is completed and will never be
done again, that's one reason Project is a less-than-optimal solution to
this sort of scheduling as your list keeps going on and on and on forever. 

-- 
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer/Consultant
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"Adrian" <Adrian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:6522B6C1-D4F5-4636-B062-4D9CA380A475@microsoft.com...
> Stuck at the first hurdle. From Mike Glenn "A project is a unique 
> undertaking
> that has a clearly defined start and finish, and requires the management 
> of
> time, resources, cost and quality."
> I can make the client (patient) the heading over a number of tasks, I'm 
> not
> sure that tasks need to be identified (ie what the carer does)
> If I make a client the task, I need to know the start and end time, say 1
> Jan 04 to 31 Dec 04.  Then the carers can be resources to one opr more 
> tasks.
> Can each client have a different colour bar on the Gantt?  Why doesn't the
> Calendar view show more than a month?
> Each carer can now be a resource and have their own calendar based on a
> default 24-hour calendar so that some carers can work evenings, nights and
> weekends - I think.
>
> Adrian

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