MSP 2003: Duration of Recuring Task depends on a following Task...

[Olaf]

Dear All,

so, if the following task postpone to a later date, new recuring tasks will
create. This is i.e. needed for team meetings.

Thanks for any help.
Olaf

 

[Jim Aksel]

Recurring tasks have hard date constraints if enterred by Project.
If you have a series of recurring tasks that become delayed, you may want to
establish the recuriring chain using lag time and predecessors.
Example:
Task 1 Team Meeting1
Task2 Team Meeting2 1FS+5days
Task3 Team Meeting 3 2FS+5days

If Team Meeting1 is delayed for any reason, the remaining meetings will move
automatically.
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[Olaf]

Hi Jim,

thanks so far.

I will explain my issue in other words.

Example:
A project will take 5 weeks. Every week a team meeting will take place. So
we have 5 meetings during this project. Now the project end will delay for 3
weeks. No we sho
What I want to archiev is that the team meetings will automatically create
in the following weeks. I hope it becomes clearer.

Thanks.
Olaf

 

[Jim Aksel]

The project will now take a total of 8 weeks.
You will need to add the additional team meetings manually.

Project has no way to know that you will need the additional meetings.

If the project has a delay in the middle of 3 weeks, increase the lag
between two of the meetings if you will skip those three weeks.

There is an alternative using a hammock task. You will lose the detail of
Team Meeting1, 2, 3, 4. Instead, you could create a single task that says
"Team Meetings" that stretches from the "Start Work" milestone until the end
of the project milestone whenever it happens. You can create a hammock task
by reading FAQ#15. Click the link below, then click FAQ near the top and
scroll to the FAQ on Hammock Tasks.

For us, we would use the Hammock task since the detail of "Team Meeting"
does not produce much value. Of course, you may actually have other
recurring meetings that do add value such as monthly cost review, etc.
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