What to do with original planned tasks not applicable anymore?

[franklin]

What is the best practice guideline in approaching tasks captured (planned)
but eventually not applicable anymore.

Take for instance a due diligence process leading towards a go/no-go
decision and eventually a number of development tasks. The development tasks
depend upon a go decision. Having received a no-go decision, what should I
do with the development tasks not applicable anymore? Deleting them one
loses future reference of this planning activity, marking them as completed
(100%) is not a true reflection.

This would apply to any task planned but not applicable at a certain stage
in the project due to unforeseen circumstances. Any suggestions?

 

[Jim Aksel]

We request approval from the customer to remove tasks from the baseline and
lower EAC/BAC accordingly.

There is also a more forward looking approach. Depending on your customer
requirements, we are only required to detail plan for the next 90 days.
Those plans are locked in, baselined, etc. If the tasks to be removed are
part of a planning package (more than 90 days out for start date), it is
possible to remove the tasks prior to baseline and request budget less than
your plan automatically reducing BAC and EAC.

Another alternative is to mark them 100% complete but remove all resources
from the tasks so you will not have any AC. This approach lowers EAC leaving
BAC alone.

The best alternative is the middle one, no permission is required.

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[Mike Glen]

Hi Franklin,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

I do not believe in having tasks in a project that are no longer wanted, so
I would delete them in toto. If you need to keep the data, why not Save
As..., and give the project a new name, before deleting them from the active
project?

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