Re: Set the project end-date

Hi LG,

I've had a quick look at your project and the most obvious problem is in the
constraints. If you insert a column for Constraint Type, you'll see the
unfinished tasks are all constrained to Start No Earlier Than. If you
change them all to As Soon As Possible, the project shortens. The
constraints were probably set by typing in the task Start dates. You enter
tasks, durations and the precedence links and then let Project do what
you've bought it for - to calculate the dates for you and thus produce a
schedule. Try that first.

Mike Glen
Project MVP



LG wrote:
Hi Mike & Jim,

I still cannot reduce the number of days for the project to target
date <=530days. Additional outsource resource for Development can be
used at cost of 150$.

And also development team would be added to the assembly team in
order to expedite the system hardware/software tests.


I upload the file here http://download.yousendit.com/4A05E0F42D8DBAB0
with some more information and I would really appreciate if advice
would be given. Please feel free to modify the file and let me have
it back how the setup is done.

Regards,

LG

"Mike Glen" wrote:

Hi LG,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :)

I'm sure others will step in here to give their opinions, but it is
important to get back to your critical path. Any changes you make to
critical tasks will affect the end date, whereas changes to
non-critical tasks will have no effect in reducing the end date. I
say more in my tutorials - you might like to have a look at my
series on Microsoft Project in the TechTrax ezine, particularly #28
on minimizing the effect of delays, 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

LG wrote:
Dear All,


At the moment, I have a project ends for 564 days with all available
resources and no resources are over allocated. But we have the
deadline to finish the project within 530 days so that I can use the
outsource (in an optimized way) to help shortend the project period.
I already created the WBS and some tasks already added with new
outsource resources as well for 100% but the project period is not
changed.


Could anyone please advise how to deal with this by making sure that
adding more resources to cut down the project time?

Any advice is highly appreciated!

Regards,

LG


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