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What is the purpose of the "as late as possible" constraint in MS Project?
A use case might be procurement of a service/software that is a pay-as-you-go service that won't be used until a certain release point. You want to wait as long as possible before procurement to ...
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How can I do Change Request on Microsoft Project?
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Microsoft Project is for project planning. It is not a replacement for other documents and processes. There is no such thing as an "MS Project Change Request."
Handling Change Requests
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Complex project schedule
There are a few issues in sequencing: 1. if I sequence the tasks with just the predecessors, the Gantt chart will be very hard to read--it's hard to read already as we have so many tasks
Task links ...
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In resource allocation, how do you call the group of people that will be hired in the future?
The term usually used is "Candidate Pool" / "Succession pool".
This usually includes candidates that you are planning to at least keep in mind in case you'll need to expand your workforce.
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What is the purpose of the "as late as possible" constraint in MS Project?
This constraint makes sense when you have a task with any of the following characteristics:
It can take place at any point in time, up to a point, but there is a future event/date/task by which it ...
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What is the purpose of the "as late as possible" constraint in MS Project?
A simpler reason is if you are dealing with something that has a short expiration window, such as fresh shrimp or ice without freezer space. You would want the delivery to come "Just-in-time" or as ...
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Use elapsed days in german ms project
Insert the task Leveling Delay field into a table and read the unit abbreviation from there. Leveling Delay is always in elapsed days.
This will give you the answer in any language. German for ...
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Need help- Documentation for non-technical people using Agile
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There is no silver bullet. However, it is likely that your organization needs to adopt a more comprehensive set of agile tools and practices to reduce unnecessary or burdensome documentation.
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Microsoft Project - how to calculate start dates based on a set time from the finish date?
This is what's called a backward pass. You want to calculate the task dates based on a fixed project finish date. To do this:
Create your tasks and link them together.
For the last task, set a ...
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Milestone behavior in MS Project
Milestones don't directly affect resource allocation. They are just another element in your schedule (tasks, summary tasks, and milestones). Milestones are scheduled the same way tasks are except they ...
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What is a good example of a project to use to demonstrate how to build a Microsoft Project Schedule
I think the best example would be building a house (image source):
Although people might not have built houses before, they have seen it happen at some point or another, and there is a good ...
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How to stop ms-project from changing task dates
I don't currently have access to MS-Project, but I clearly recall there being an option to set the scheduling to MANUAL (or "Do not recalculate automatically").
IIRC this option can be set globally ...
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Interviewing for MS Project skills
Q - How do you make MS Project information available and understandable for non PM team members?
A - Typically this will involve views printed to PDF, exports to Excel, sometimes people have ...
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How to sort by task numbers?
You should be able to sort by Task ID, save the file. The view should hold the sort by ID order.
If you have done a lot of manual formatting changes to the view, it's possible it is corrupt. You can ...
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Duration vs Work
I am going to answer this question in a completely different way. My answer will not technically answer your question but may provide you with another alternative in building your schedule.
First, ...
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Why the comparisons between % complete and % planned complete is meaningless?
It's not meaningless from a concept point of view. It is unreliable from an operations point of view if performed poorly, which most are. It is performed poorly for many reasons: 1) it's hard to ...
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How do I identify critical path in MS Project?
Standard Answer:
1. Check the "Critical Tasks" box in the Bar Styles group of the Format ribbon. That will enable the red bars on the bar chart.
OR
2. Apply the built-in "Critical" filter in the Data ...
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MS Project - Predecessor 'or'
You can't. "Or" relationships aren't supported in MSP (nor in any other mainstream project scheduling tool that I know of.)
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How to effectively implement Scrum for a small project (max duration 6 months) with defined project deadlines?
Perhaps the most important question is: why do you want to?
There are a lot of groups out there that they that "Agile Development Practices" will make a traditional project complete faster. While ...
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Should activities before kick-off meeting be represented in a Schedule Plan
The work you do before you have contract is of no concern to the customer. The customer would not care what you did, how much it cost you, whether you had issues doing that work, etc. If you added ...
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EVM and Schedule Variance
I cannot speak to how MS Project calculates EV data; however, using earned value to analyze your schedule is not advised. SV and SPI becomes 0 and 1.0 respectively as the task or project finishes. ...
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MS Project - Task constraints based on dates of other tasks
You should be able to do this by linking tasks and creating dependencies between them.
From memory, while on the Gantt screen, ensure that the Predecessor column is shown. In the example you give, let'...
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I only have resource man hours? not their names. How would I assign these manhours in MS Project without resource names
Resources can be groups of people: engineers, QA, etc. Create resources where the name is the type of worker, not the name of a specific worker and assign those to the tasks. Then you look at the ...
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I only have resource man hours? not their names. How would I assign these manhours in MS Project without resource names
Define roles rather than people. Unless it matters that "Sally" does the work instead of "John," you can use roles like developer, tester, architect, engineer, machinist, or ...
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How to import Actual Work to MS Project 2013 from CSV
You should use import map in import wizard to achieve this. For more details you can refer to the following article
6 Practical Scenarios Where Excel Import is Useful - http://www.mpug.com/articles/6-...
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How do I represent multiple instances of a task-list in a WBS?
The answer depends on how important the tasks are; the goal of the WBS is that it contains the work, the whole work and nothing but the work.
If the tasks are short, repetitive and clearly ...
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How to assign multiple resources to a in MS Project and making them work different hours over the same duration
An approach that works for me.
Create the 11 day duration task and, as you noted, set it as Fixed Duration.
Split the screen (right click in the Gantt chart area and choose Show Split) to show the ...
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How to assign multiple resources to a in MS Project and making them work different hours over the same duration
MS-Project works from a task-centric model, rather than a resource-centric model.
That is to say, MS-Project works from the position that tasks require an intrinsic amount of work to complete, ...
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Creating a Template in MS Project
You can save any MS Project file and call it a "template" for future work. You'll also want to build a checklist of steps to take when using such a template, for example, (in MS Project 2013)
File->...
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Is there a way to copy and paste tasks from one project file to the other without losing the predecessors?
In the old project schedule, go to the Task Sheet view.
Select all rows and columns by clicking on the blank square above
the IDs and to the left of the first column header.
Press Ctrl + C to copy. ...
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