Re: Contingency Planning

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From: JackD (momokuri_at_gmail)
Date: 02/23/05 

Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:49:23 -0800

You will have to find a cut-off between phases, otherwise how can you tell
which phase you are working on? If there is no cut-off then there is no
phase :-)

The problem might be that there are multiple cut-offs between the phase. If
I were asked to do this I'd consider inserting a number of tasks - one in
each chain of dependencies between the two phases. For example if I have a
person or group of resources which are working on a certain type of work
(call it A) another set working on B stuff and another on C then I'd have
something like

Task A1.1->A1.2->A1.3->A1.4->Phase1contingencyA->A2.1->A2.2->A2.3...
Task B1.1->B1.2->B1.3->B1.4->Phase1contingencyB->B2.1->B2.2->B2.3...

Perhaps the contingencies align, but quite possibly they don't. Assign the
appropriate resources to the contingencies.
Use the grouping feature in project to view all phase1 contingencies as a
group if you want to see them all together. 

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"toast88" <toast88@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:747CDC02-E69D-4CF3-861A-9598E2A11959@microsoft.com...
> I have a project that will have 5 phases with phases overlapping (Phase 1
> overlaps w/ #2, #2 overlaps with #3, etc..). I need to build in resource
and
> schedule contingency planning per phase. Any suggestions/experiences on
the
> best way to do so since there is no clean cutoff that one phase must be
done
> before the other can start?
>
> My initial thoughts are to setup a task per phase and assign resources to
> the task for the desired duration of the contingency amount of the phase.
>
> Any thoughts from you on your experience is appreciated.
>
> Thanks!