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PS2007Beginner
Beginner Guidance
Our projects provide us with a unique issue that I am hoping someone
can give me some guidance on. We start a project and do several tasks
and are then delayed waiting on outside entities to do their part
which can take several months. Then we go back and do several tasks
and are delayed again for several months. Then we go back again and
do several tasks and are again delayed for several months and finally
we get to finish our project. This causes a problem for us in project
visibility. We can have 60 projects like this going on at any given
time. Due to the fact we are relying on other outside entities to do
their part before we can do ours, our start time shift continuously.
So if we have 60 projects going on and we can only know our start date
of the first phase and as we get closer to the next phase we start to
nail down a "go back" date, we would like to look at our project
portfolio and only see those projects are have us working for that
given period. In the Project Center the summary view only shows the
entire project with a blue line (in the Gantt chart) for the start
date and the finish date of the project as a whole. It does not break
up the line to represent the delays. So it would be much more helpful
for us to have the broken line for each of our projects so that we
could see where we are working in that given period and how our
progress is on that phase of the work.
We tried breaking our project into several projects but that means we
have 240 projects going at a given time and we end up with multiple
workspaces for a single project. This spreads our documents out,
issues, etc.
Example Project
Project Start
Task 1 1 day
Task 2 2 weeks
Task 3 2 weeks
Task 4 2 days
Milestone 1
Delay for 4 months
Task 5 2 days
Task 6 2 weeks
Task 7 2 days
Milestone 2
Delay for 5 months
Task 8 4 hours
Delay for 3 months
Task 9 3 Days
Task 10 3 Days
Task 11 2 Days
Milestone 3
Delay for two months
Task 12 4 Days
Task 13 1 Month
Task 14 2 Weeks
Task 15 2 Days
Completed.
Thank you for taking the time to read this and any guidance you may
offer.
Best regards,
Kevin
Our projects provide us with a unique issue that I am hoping someone
can give me some guidance on. We start a project and do several tasks
and are then delayed waiting on outside entities to do their part
which can take several months. Then we go back and do several tasks
and are delayed again for several months. Then we go back again and
do several tasks and are again delayed for several months and finally
we get to finish our project. This causes a problem for us in project
visibility. We can have 60 projects like this going on at any given
time. Due to the fact we are relying on other outside entities to do
their part before we can do ours, our start time shift continuously.
So if we have 60 projects going on and we can only know our start date
of the first phase and as we get closer to the next phase we start to
nail down a "go back" date, we would like to look at our project
portfolio and only see those projects are have us working for that
given period. In the Project Center the summary view only shows the
entire project with a blue line (in the Gantt chart) for the start
date and the finish date of the project as a whole. It does not break
up the line to represent the delays. So it would be much more helpful
for us to have the broken line for each of our projects so that we
could see where we are working in that given period and how our
progress is on that phase of the work.
We tried breaking our project into several projects but that means we
have 240 projects going at a given time and we end up with multiple
workspaces for a single project. This spreads our documents out,
issues, etc.
Example Project
Project Start
Task 1 1 day
Task 2 2 weeks
Task 3 2 weeks
Task 4 2 days
Milestone 1
Delay for 4 months
Task 5 2 days
Task 6 2 weeks
Task 7 2 days
Milestone 2
Delay for 5 months
Task 8 4 hours
Delay for 3 months
Task 9 3 Days
Task 10 3 Days
Task 11 2 Days
Milestone 3
Delay for two months
Task 12 4 Days
Task 13 1 Month
Task 14 2 Weeks
Task 15 2 Days
Completed.
Thank you for taking the time to read this and any guidance you may
offer.
Best regards,
Kevin