RE: Milestone Duration Mystery

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Jim,

Thx for the response.

Sorry about not providing enough info, frustration setting in <grin>. This
is 2007 with SP1 and all updates except for the December update.

I have seen this behavior off and on for some time now and thought it was
poor scheduling by a select set of PMs. However, a PM that I know is very
good with his schedule witnessed this and told me that after I pointed out
the issue he added the resource back to the task and the duration returned to
zero, when he again removed the resource the duration jumped to over a 1000
days.

I have not been able to repeat this behavior in a test schedule. I can only
speculate that it may come from some of the schedules that were migrated from
the 2003 server and people are copy and pasting old corrupted tasks into new
shcedules. Anyways, I am waiting for the next time it happens to be able to
see the change take place as witnessed by the earlier mentioned PM.

Darrell

"Jim Aksel" wrote:

MS Project 2003 is on SP3
MS Project 2007 is on SP1 plus some additional updates
Make sure you are up to date. If the problem persists, let us know
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"Darrell" wrote:

I have not been able to find an answer to this so I will ask again.

I have seen several project schedules from several different project
managers where a tasks duration suddenly jumps out into the future without
anyone knowing why. I just worked with a PM who removed a generic resource
that was mistakenly assigned to a milestone and when the generic resource was
removed the duration changed to 1000 something days and the finish date went
to 2049 even thought the task had zero duration and zero work and zero
progress prior to removing the resource. What is causing this behavior?

Darrell
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