"Project Mgt" task?

A

anovak

Is it fairly common to have a "Project Mgt" task of some sort within
each project (if not specific line items for development procurement
plans, communication plans, etc)?

Please share if you would.

Thanks,
Andy Novak
UNT
 
M

Marc Soester [MVP]

Hi Andy,

absolutely. PM'ing is part of every project ( or should be :) ) and as such
you should have the abillity to plan and track this time a PM is spending.
Remember at the end of the day you want to reflect reality to your project
schedule and reality is that PM's work on projects.

I actually always have a seperat Summary task called "Project Wide Tasks".
As part of this summary task I have Project Management time as a task, status
meetings as recurring tasks etc etc.
I hope this helps
 
U

Ueli

In smaller projects where you know that you will spend let us say about 40%
of your time for a specific project during the whole project duration there
is a very simple way to create and maintain a reliable forecast for the PM
effort:

Create a task for PM, and create at the same level another task (summary
task) with all the execution sub-tasks. Set the PM task to fixed unit, not
effort driven and add the project manager with 40%. Go then to the Gantt
Chart, click on the duration field of the execution-summary task, copy, click
on the duration field of your PM task, and choose Edit->Paste Special->Paste
Link. When the end date of the execution task slips, your pm task increases
his duration and work automatically, which in general is realistic.

Hope that helps.
 
A

anovak

In smaller projects where you know that you will spend let us say about 40%
of your time for a specific project during the whole project duration there
is a very simple way to create and maintain a reliable forecast for the PM
effort:

Create a task for PM, and create at the same level another task (summary
task) with all the execution sub-tasks. Set the PM task to fixed unit, not
effort driven and add the project manager with 40%. Go then to the Gantt
Chart, click on the duration field of the execution-summary task, copy, click
on the duration field of your PM task, and choose Edit->Paste Special->Paste
Link. When the end date of the execution task slips, your pm task increases
his duration and work automatically, which in general is realistic.

Hope that helps.
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Ueli,
What a terrific idea. I tried it and it works great
Thanks
Andy
 
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