Preventing changes to planned work in Server 2007

[Barbara G]

Hi,
I'm new to project and I manage all of the support tasks for the resources
in my company. I have the tasks set to fixed duration without effort driven.
If the resource doesn't apply time towards the tasks, the planned work will
accumulate and the finish date will move further out. Is there a way to avoid
this or fix this?

Thanks

 

[Barbara G]

Does this entail writing VBA code? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Barbara,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

Are they just not doing the work or simply forgetting to enter the data? In
either case, the solution is training and discipline! However, if the work
is not done on time, if the task is on the critical path, the end date is
bound to be pushed out. There is no way that it won't be pushed out unless
you do something. You can shorten subsequent tasks by assigning more or
different resources, or bu deleting them, or by changing the scope or
quality of your end product.

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Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on

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[Barbara G]

We just implemented this in October and the resources support categories are
contained in a separate project. When people take a day off, it accumulates
their planned hours. If they work extra hours, they don't have as much time
in their planned hours. These support categories are fixed duration until
December 31st and the reason they exist in project is to see everyone's
availability to work on projects. I wasn't sure if there was a way to
automate the planned hours to stay the same.

 

[Mike Glen]

Sorry Barbara, I don't really understand your problem. If you have a
separate project for support, how can that affect your main project? How
can taking time off increase their available hours? I'm obviously having a
mental blockage - maybe someone else might have a better idea.

Mike Glen
Project MVP

 

[JulieS]

Hello Barbara,

Pardon me for bumping in, but you may have better success posting your
question to the Project Server newsgroup. I believe that Project 2003
had projects called administrative projects that people could book
non-project time to (such as I believe you are trying to do with your
fixed duration tasks). I don't know Project Server 2007 well, but I
believe there may be a similar option using Project Server 2007.

I hope this helps.
Julie
Project MVP

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