Prevent entering actual work on task before predecessor complete.

[Rybtsov S.]

How to prevent someone from entering actual work on task before it's
predecessor is complete (through PWA).

Thanks

 

[Marc Soester [MVP]]

Hi rybtsov,

out of the box that is not possible and do you really want to restrict your
resources entering actual data based on pre-decessors? My take on this is as
follow: You may have planned to only start on a task after the first task is
completed, but you may have actually started working on the second task. Why
wouldnt I as a PM not want to know about it? You will always have variances
between planning and actual tracking. What you should analyse is the gap
between planning and actual tracking so that you can incorporate "real life"
into your planning ( e.g. Lessons Learned).

So to make a long answer short, you will not be able to achieve this out of
the box. If you REALLY REALLY want to do this ( which I strongly recommend
not to) then you could custom develop something ( based on event handlers)
which could prevent entering actual data before the pre-decessor is
completed, but once again, I do not believe that this is a good solution. It
restricts your users unnecesessarily
Hope this helps

 

[Rybtsov S.]

Problem is: for example there is 2 tasks, task 1 should be done before 2
starts.If someone able to begin do second task, before first done (for
example if second don't finish in time) is very very bad

 

[Marc Soester [MVP]]

Yaep, that could potentially very bad, that's why you have a PM. The system
does not do the PM'ing for you, all it does is display the data you entered
and maintainded in the system.

If you dont want resources to start on task 2, make it clear to them
Hope this helps