Re: beginner: difficulties with timeline

From: Fredo Vincentis (yahoda21_at_hotmailNoSpam.com)
Date: 02/29/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 11:07:02 +1100

Thanks for the help on this, Mike. It gives me a good understanding on where
I went wrong (or actually I didn't go too wrong, Project just handled things
differently to what I expected).

But if I may add another question that still causes me headache on the same
project:

Again there are some tasks that include multiple resources at the same time
(e.g. a meeting between two people). One of the resources does not have a
Std. Rate. assigned to it, because it is an external party that is not being
paid for any of its work. The other resource has got a Std Rate of $65.00/h.
The meeting goes for an hour (Mike: this would be for example Task 11).

If I now change the View to "Cost" and check the "Total Cost" for one of
these tasks, it says "$0.00". However, in my understanding Project should
tell me the meeting cost $65.00, seeing that there is one resource with
$65.00 and the other with $0.00 Std. Rate.

This seems strange to me in particular because it is happening on some tasks
of that kind and it doesn't on others. I have got several meetings of
multiple resources throughout my project and some of them have got a Total
Cost, others don't. I can't see the pattern.

Any idea why this is happening?

Thanks heaps for your help, guys! I am learning a lot here.

"Mike Glen" <glenATmvps.org> wrote in message
news:usJNjSf$DHA.3712@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> For the record, Freda had, for example, 3 resources on a task, one of whom
> had restricted working hours in a personal calendar. Thus the Duration
> expanded to allow for all 3 resources to finish the allotted Work. So the
> schedule, when levelled, pushed out the dates, made the Duration longer.
>
> Mike Glen
> MS Project MVP
>
> Mike Glen wrote:
> > Sure, Fredo, email me changing the AT to @ and I'll have a look
> > tomorrow.
> >
> > Mike Glen
> > MS Project MVP
> >
> > Fredo Vincentis wrote:
> >> I have got absolutely no time constraints on the project, except for
> >> the beginning of the first task, which is set to a certain date.
> >>
> >> Could I email the file to one of you to have a quick look over it?
> >> Just to see that I enetered everything I needed before levelling?
> >>
> >> "Jan De Messemaeker" <jandemes at prom hyphen ade dot be> wrote in
> >> message news:e#vHGKu#DHA.2180@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I'm nearly sure that you assigned a task to a resource with limited
> >>> availability in time
> >>> Then when Leveling pushes a task for that resource to a time after
> >>> its latest availability, it keeps on pushing till the end of its
> >>> calendar (31/12/2049)
> >>>
> >>> Could you verify that?
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Jan De Messemaeker
> >>> Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
> >>> Project Management Consultancy
> >>> Prom+ade BVBA
> >>> 32-495-300 620
> >>> "Fredo Vincentis" <yahoda21@hotmailNoSpam.com> schreef in bericht
> >>> news:c1e09p$1190$1@otis.netspace.net.au...
> >>>> Hi guys, thanks for the welcome.
> >>>>
> >>>> I have read your article and others as well on levelling, but I
> >>>> still don't get it working. What I really want project to do is NOT
> >>>> to split any tasks (so I turned that setting off), and NOT to
> >>>> adjust individual assignments. If there is overallocation, I want
> >>>> the tasks to be pushed out longer until there is no more
> >>>> overallocation.
> >>>>
> >>>> If I uncheck all tick boxes and leave the other default settings,
> >>>> Project suddenly changes the duration of some of my tasks to 0hrs!?
> >>>> That's one way of getting rid of the overallocation, but not really
> >>>> implementable. I want the duration of the tasks to remain the same.
> >>>>
> >>>> Also it changes the duration of my project from 26 days to 11962
> >>>> days. I expected more like 40 days, not 32 years, to work on this
> >>>> project.
> >>>>
> >>>> Any idea where I might be going wrong?
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks heaps!
> >>>>
> >>>> "Mike Glen" <glenATmvps.org> wrote in message
> >>>> news:evy5HLh#DHA.2660@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> >>>>> Hi ,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> You might like to have a look at my series of Microsoft Project
> >>>>> lessons in the TechTrax ezine, particularly Lesson 5-Working With
> >>>>> Resources, at this site:
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
>
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMFrame.asp?CMD=ArticleSearch&AU
> >>>> TH=23
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 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
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Fredo Vincentis wrote:
> >>>>>> I have entered all my tasks into Project 2000, entered my
> >>>>>> resources and allocated them to the tasks. I also set a few
> >>>>>> predecessors for those tasks that rely on others to be completed
> >>>>>> first. What I expected was that Project would start a new task
> >>>>>> "as soon as possible" without overallocating resources. But
> >>>>>> instead of doing that, all my resources are hopelessly
> >>>>>> overallocated. I didn't change the start-times or end-times, all
> >>>>>> I changed was the duration of each task.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Any idea where I'm going wrong?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Thanks for your help.
>
>
>

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