I have about a hundred questions I would like to resolve around this tool, but I will start with my top two and work from there. Thank you all in advance for any assistance you can provide.
SUMMARY: Contracted as PMO for a very large scale system implementation. Work plans are object level loaded, and there are almost one thousand objects that need to be delivered. There are a total of 50 work plans. Projects are loaded in MS Project Server.
1.) Is there a quick/easy way to bring planned work forward? For example: If a resource is assigned 15 days of work effort to complete a task, logs 5, and doesn't touch the task for a few weeks, the remaining planned work will often stay in the past until actuals are applied again in the past. I could do this manually by zeroing the actuals for the weeks not worked, but please keep in mind that one of these work plans can have twenty resources, each assigned to no less than 50 tasks, so my resource usage view could have as many as 1000 or more lines of information.
2.) Is there ever a way to truly get dates in the plan to stay? Primarily the end date. The current issue I am running is that whenever actuals are applied to the work plan, end dates slip forward or back. I want these days to stay still and only move if applying actuals beyond the baselined finish date (assuming the deliverable is late.) I've tried entering everything in fixed duration, however, if a resource books time against this task early, the entire task moves forward. When working in fixed work, dates are all over the place, and fixed units the same.
Again, any help would be greatly appreciated guys. In hind sight, this whole thing should have simply been done in Excel. I am very proficient in MS Project and I still cannot figure out how several of these issues come up.
Thanks
SUMMARY: Contracted as PMO for a very large scale system implementation. Work plans are object level loaded, and there are almost one thousand objects that need to be delivered. There are a total of 50 work plans. Projects are loaded in MS Project Server.
1.) Is there a quick/easy way to bring planned work forward? For example: If a resource is assigned 15 days of work effort to complete a task, logs 5, and doesn't touch the task for a few weeks, the remaining planned work will often stay in the past until actuals are applied again in the past. I could do this manually by zeroing the actuals for the weeks not worked, but please keep in mind that one of these work plans can have twenty resources, each assigned to no less than 50 tasks, so my resource usage view could have as many as 1000 or more lines of information.
2.) Is there ever a way to truly get dates in the plan to stay? Primarily the end date. The current issue I am running is that whenever actuals are applied to the work plan, end dates slip forward or back. I want these days to stay still and only move if applying actuals beyond the baselined finish date (assuming the deliverable is late.) I've tried entering everything in fixed duration, however, if a resource books time against this task early, the entire task moves forward. When working in fixed work, dates are all over the place, and fixed units the same.
Again, any help would be greatly appreciated guys. In hind sight, this whole thing should have simply been done in Excel. I am very proficient in MS Project and I still cannot figure out how several of these issues come up.
Thanks
