Portfolio Analyzer and Project Time

[Joel_Banks]

Hello!

I have a disparity between what Portfolio Analyzer and a particular project
indicate as total time. I think it is because I have multiple resources
working on one task and the computation is getting hairy. Has anyone else
experienced this?

Thanks in Advance,

Joel Banks

 

[Brian K - Project MVP]

Hello!

I have a disparity between what Portfolio Analyzer and a particular
project indicate as total time. I think it is because I have
multiple resources working on one task and the computation is getting
hairy. Has anyone else experienced this?

Thanks in Advance,

Joel Banks

The times I have seen this happen tend to be due to one or both of the
following:

1. You have made changes to the project plan that you have saved but
not published.

2. You have saved/published changes since the last time the OLAP cube
was built


If either of these are the case then the info you are seeing in the
Portfolio Analyzer is not up to date.

Save and publish your project plan and then rebuild the OLAP cube and
then look at your view and see if they agree.

I hope this helps.

 

[Brian K - Project MVP]

Thanks Brian!

I should have given you a little more detail. The Cube is greater
than the project, in some cases significantly so. Could this be due
to having more than one resources scheduled to work on an individual
task?

Joel

The same cause could still apply. If the edits you made to the project
plan caused the value to be lower then the cube woudl be higher.

Also make sure that the portfolio analyzer view you have set up is not
showing work for multiple versions of the same project.

Are the numbers MUCH higher or are they very small difference that
could be due to rounding calculations being different between the OLAP
server and the win32 client of project?

 

[Joel_Banks]

Brian,

Once again thanks! I think I am going to drop the cube and bring it back
and see what it reads. I will let you know what happens.

Thanks,

Joel Banks