To know how to manage operations in EPM instead of projects

[basim alvi]

Hi,

I want to know about if the daily operations are running on company we will
use epm for operations or not .

because it is very difficult to schedule and arrange operations on EPM .
because EPM is for projects which have beginning and ending date .
and operations are performing by more than one people.

how we can use EPM to manage operations pls answer in detail
pls reply me soon and appropriate answer

Regards

Basim Alvi

 

[mark.everett]

Basim - Again, a simple search of this and related newsgroups would
give you numerous answers to your question. You are basically asking
about Administrative projects, which can represent time away from work,
or non-project (or operational) tasks. Project Server provides an
Admin project template and methodology and it is strongly recommended
by me and most others that you NOT use it.

Instead, do this:

Work with your users to determine the kinds of tasks people want in the
plans. If you have operational work (bug fixes, server support, etc)
then group them in a way that makes sense to your organization. If you
want to list time away from work, I would use a separate admin plan for
that, but composed the same way.

Once you have collected the task data, and the resources that should be
assigned to those tasks, do this:

1. Start Project Professional.
2. Set project start date.
3. Create summary task and subtasks.
4. Set Fixed Duration and Non-effort driven for all tasks.
5. Assign resources with 0 units.
6. Set duration to 90 days or whatever period you decide (but 90 days
or one calendar quarter is a good place to start).
7. Save and publish.

Please note that if you use this method, once a resource enters time in
a task, it will go to 100% complete and will disappear from the current
view. Train your users to use "All Tasks" when they need to enter
non-project time.

Mark S. Everett | PMP

 

[John Sitka]

please provide all details in reply, sooner and faster,

i might just one day say thank you

regards.