Schedule report analysis

[carey]

I come from the Primavera world of scheduling applications. Whereas, in P3
there exist a report that can be generated to show the scheduler if there are
problems with the schedule. These items include: which activities are
constrained; which activities are milestones; loops in the logic; open ended
activities; update status of activities that are out of sequence (ie, started
after the data date; started on the data date, etc); number of activities in
the project; and various other items.

I am unable to find nor generate a report of this sort. I would appreciate
your assistance because doing the schedule critique is very laborious in MSP
2003. Your help to find or create a report of this sort would be greatly
speed up my critique time.

TIA

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Carey --

It would probably save you a ton of time to purchase an add-on product to
audit your projects. For example, Quantum PM makes a product called
Schedule Auditor for this purpose at:

http://www.quantumpm.com/qsa.aspx

Just a thought. Perhaps the others will have some ideas, too.

 

[carey]

Dale:

Thank you very much for the quick response. Your answer was very helpful and
confirmed my suspicion about that particular feature. Also, thanks for the
link. If anyone else out there has any ideas or other links, I would
appreciate your input and suggestions.

Again, thanks Dale.

 

[Mike Oliver, PMP]

In addition to Quantum's Schedule Auditor, there's also a tool from
http://www.pmwidgets.com called the Schedule Integrity Analyzer which calls
attention to a variety of integrity issues.

- Mike Oliver, PMP

 

[carey]

Thanks, Mike. I appreciate your response. I will check it out.

-Carey

 

[Martin T]

You could also look at www.projectscheduling-smartassistant.com.