Basseline work and no resources?

[Quizzed again]

This seems messed up to me but please tell me if you also see this.
In MSP2007 and also MSP2003, I have discovered that in projects without
resources that if I save a baseline in a file, with no resources at all, that
the SW is calculating what would equal 1 FTE worth of baseline work on each
non-zero duration task. The baseline work in this case can be seen in a
resource usage view if you add the baseline work field.
The baseline work is not timephased.
Why woud it be doing this and how do I stop it? I tested with MSP SP2 and
Dec CU and also the April 2010 CU. I also tested on other files in MSP2003.

Thanks!

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Quizzed again,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

Project is designed to schedule the work required to complete the project. If you have no resources, you can't enter any work. Project's baseline Work fields use the formula: Work = Duration X Assignment Units and assumes each of the parameters has a value - hence the nominal use of 1 Unit to give a value to Baseline Work. However, if you aren't assigning resources you can't be interested in Work, so why should it concern you? Just ignore it.

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at this web address: http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP
See http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc for my free Project Tutorials



This seems messed up to me but please tell me if you also see this.
In MSP2007 and also MSP2003, I have discovered that in projects without
resources that if I save a baseline in a file, with no resources at all, that
the SW is calculating what would equal 1 FTE worth of baseline work on each
non-zero duration task. The baseline work in this case can be seen in a
resource usage view if you add the baseline work field.
The baseline work is not timephased.
Why woud it be doing this and how do I stop it? I tested with MSP SP2 and
Dec CU and also the April 2010 CU. I also tested on other files in MSP2003.

Thanks!

 

[Quizzed again]

Hello Mike. I expected to hear that! And I understand the utility of ignoring
it. But really, why is it doing it? It is erroneous data in the file and
should not be there and may give some users of the file the wrong idea (ie
customer). Are you or others seeing this same behavior? BTW, Work stays at
zero. It is only Baseline Work that assumes a value.
Any thoughts?

 

[Quizzed again]

Mike you are in good company. Dale also says it is by design. Hard to notice
since there are no resources in the file, so ignoring it should not be too
hard! Thanks for your help!
QA

 

[Mike Glen]

You're welcome, QA

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP
See http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc for my free Project Tutorials


Mike you are in good company. Dale also says it is by design. Hard to notice
since there are no resources in the file, so ignoring it should not be too
hard! Thanks for your help!
QA