Re: Set the project end-date

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Dear Mike & Jim,


Thank you very much for your advice now I can solve my problem now.

In the Ms. Project, I cannot find values for column PV [Planned Value of
work schedule] and BAC [Budget At completion]. I want to add these two
columns into the cost table but cannot find it in the available list. Please
kindly advise.



Regards,
LG

"Jim Aksel" wrote:

First, you will need to establish relationships among your remaining tasks.
I see no predecessor relationships. What is worse, you have dates hard coded
which is establishing constraints of "Start No Earlier Than".

So, eliminate the constraint dates by making everything "Start No Earlier
Than". You can do this by inserting a column "Constraint Type" and then
changing all the values to "As Soon As Possible".

This will move all your tasks "Left" to the project start date. From there,
you need to establish relationships between the tasks that will drive the
start dates. If the tasks can truly run in parallel and all must start on
those dates, then it is ok to leave them .... your only real driver will be
85 days for the network interface.

I challenge your predecessor on "Assemble Preproduction" .... you are
probably saying you have a 50 day lead time for receipt of parts. This
should be a separate tasks called "Supplier Lead Time" or similar.

If I remove the date constrainsts on just tasks 22 and 23 then the finish
date moves to 2/17/2011 on this machine (my standard calendar may be
different than yours)


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"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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