Project Plan Checker

[Ben Howard]

Anyone know of any tools that check a project plan for mistakes/bad
practises. Eg resources on summary tasks, tasks without
successors/predescessors etc. I remember one from a while back but can't
find it anywhere.

TIA

 

[sedrazi]

You can have resourses on summaries and also have tasks without any
relationship and still be correct! there's only logical (and math.) errors
that would be checked by the program.and ofcorce it's automatic.
you may saw this feature in other programs such as P3.

 

[John]

Anyone know of any tools that check a project plan for mistakes/bad
practises. Eg resources on summary tasks, tasks without
successors/predescessors etc. I remember one from a while back but can't
find it anywhere.

TIA

Ben,
This same question was asked about a week ago. Try this link,
http://www.projectviewercentral.com/projectviewer/dr_mpp.html

Hope this helps.
John
Project MVP

 

[John]

You can have resourses on summaries and also have tasks without any
relationship and still be correct! there's only logical (and math.) errors
that would be checked by the program.and ofcorce it's automatic.
you may saw this feature in other programs such as P3.

sedrazi,
Whether a plan is "correct" or not is relative. Ben was asking about bad
practices and resources on summaries, tasks without links and several
other things are bad practice when it comes to creating a sound schedule
plan.

John
Project MVP

 

[davegb]

Anyone know of any tools that check a project plan for mistakes/bad
practises. Eg resources on summary tasks, tasks without
successors/predescessors etc. I remember one from a while back but can't
find it anywhere.

TIA

That would be nice to have! If you find such a product, please let me
know. I always check those things (links to summaries, unlinked or
partialy linked tasks, etc.) manually. Doesn't take very long. I think
that at one time I wrote a macro that filtered for tasks w/o
predecessors, tasks w/o sucessors and highlighted them to make it a
little easier and quicker to find and fix them. I think they're pretty
easy to find in the Network Diagram, particularly if you set Link Type
to direct instead of rectilinear.

Hope this helps in your world.

 

[Jim Aksel]

Hi Ben -
See the 23 NOV 2007 Post titled: Analysis Tool for MS Project Plans.
John gave you a link that was also posted there. The other post has some of
my rants and advice from others.

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[Bob]

Hi Ben -
See the 23 NOV 2007 Post titled: Analysis Tool for MS Project Plans.
John gave you a link that was also posted there. The other post has some of
my rants and advice from others.

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Jim

Visithttp://project.mvps.org/for FAQs and more information
about Microsoft Project

If you want to put resrouces on summary task, set the allocation to
0%.
It is a simple way to show workers or owners, etc. without double
counting the work.

Cheers,