Close off remaining work...

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Reuben Hecquet

I have been in discussions with MS India about processes for closing
off a task by zeroing out remaining work. I was not happy with what I
was told but have seen similar postings on the subject. Would
appreciate if somebody could confirm this. Using managed time periods.

They told me the correct process was to:

Change the task to non-effort driven
Republish
Ask resources to use PWA to put any remaining work to zero
PM to then accept

For a customer who has many projects with tasks that have lots of
resources assigned this is not workable as many of the resources will
not be in a situation to carry out this work and sometimes the number
of resources will be very high. Is our only choice to seriously
consider moving to non-managed periods or has there been a
misunderstanding. At the moment this is driving our PM's crazy and I
see no choice but to lose the functions that we use in managed periods
and move to non-managed. Any comments much appreciated.

RH.
 
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Eren Ersonmez

You should be able to simply set remaining work of the task to zero in
Project Professional and republish the project. That will set the remaining
work of all assignments to zero as well.
 
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reuben

After many phone calls with MS I can confirm that using managed periods
you can zero out remaining work and publish contrary to some postings
that seem to be getting mixed up with the zeroing out of actuals which
cannot be done when using managed periods.

We had some issues with some plans that had corruption in them that
were not functioning correctly but otherwise the process of changing
the remaining work for the task or the resource to zero and publishing
works fine.
 
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