Cecilia said:
Is there a way to iterate tasks in Office Project 2003? I have a test phase,
that is supposed to be iterated until it is considered fulfilled. I tried to
put a Finish to start - link, but could only do this one way, I want it
linked both ways. Are there any solutions to this?
As others have said, there is no direct way to do loops like we see in
software development. However, there is a way to simulate them in your
schedule if you're a bit creative.
You create 2 tasks, Develop and Test. Test has a SS+ however many days
you start testing after you start writing code. The duration of Test
should such that it finishes the number of days after you finish
writing code that it would normally take. Of course, if either takes
longer than planned, you have to edit both durations. We tried doing an
automated process to handle this using linked/calculated fields, but
they always seemed to backfire somehow and end up going unstable. If
someone has had better luck with this, I'd love to hear from them.
We also introduced schedule buffer before the completion of each major
code module to compensate for the fact that some piece(s) of code is
going to take much longer than planned, but there's no way to know in
advance which one.
Hope this helps in your world.
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