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Mike F
For simplicity sake, I have a one task project (General Meetings) that has a
10 day duration and two resources assigned (Tim and Joe). Tim and Joe
are allocated to spend 10% of their time in these meetings. Now this task
has a fixed duration, and it is NOT effort driven. So, each are "estimated"
to spend 8 hours in meetings over the 10 day duration of this project.
Tim attends 8 hours of meetings in 3 days, and Joe only spends 4 hours
in these meetings. Well, in day 4, Tim gets pulled into another two hour
meeting and adds this additional work to his timesheet (external) When he
does, Project comes back with an error "The resource is assigned outside the
original dates for task General Meetings). The duration of this
fixed-duration task will change to accomodate the resource assignment".
Well...because of this extra 2 hours that Tim is putting into this
task, the fixed duration I am locked into has "creeped" out 6 days!! This is
just for a one line project, so imagine what happens when I have a 1 year
project where all of my dependencies are set and feed off this task. My team
has projects that are creeping out YEARS because of this issue. In EPK or
any other external timesheet compatible with MS Project (we do use PWA),
where does the Actual Work from a timesheet go within MS Project? If I can
get it to point to a Resource Usage View or a Task Usage View to store the
Actuals, I don't have a problem. What EPK seems to do is to store the
Actuals in some Aggregate Usage view (Gant Chart or Task Form) and I can't
contour the time as I need. Any thoughts?
10 day duration and two resources assigned (Tim and Joe). Tim and Joe
are allocated to spend 10% of their time in these meetings. Now this task
has a fixed duration, and it is NOT effort driven. So, each are "estimated"
to spend 8 hours in meetings over the 10 day duration of this project.
Tim attends 8 hours of meetings in 3 days, and Joe only spends 4 hours
in these meetings. Well, in day 4, Tim gets pulled into another two hour
meeting and adds this additional work to his timesheet (external) When he
does, Project comes back with an error "The resource is assigned outside the
original dates for task General Meetings). The duration of this
fixed-duration task will change to accomodate the resource assignment".
Well...because of this extra 2 hours that Tim is putting into this
task, the fixed duration I am locked into has "creeped" out 6 days!! This is
just for a one line project, so imagine what happens when I have a 1 year
project where all of my dependencies are set and feed off this task. My team
has projects that are creeping out YEARS because of this issue. In EPK or
any other external timesheet compatible with MS Project (we do use PWA),
where does the Actual Work from a timesheet go within MS Project? If I can
get it to point to a Resource Usage View or a Task Usage View to store the
Actuals, I don't have a problem. What EPK seems to do is to store the
Actuals in some Aggregate Usage view (Gant Chart or Task Form) and I can't
contour the time as I need. Any thoughts?