Project Statistics

G

Girija

Can any one help me in understanding Project Statistics in MSP( MSP ->
Project -> Project Information -> Statistics). Or is there any document in
understanding this please.
 
B

Ben Howard

I'm not sure what's not to understand here, it all appears fairly obvious (to
me at least). Anyway, here's a definition...

Project Statistics
A project-level summary displaying a comparison between baseline, current,
actual and remaining values for the project's schedule and its duration, work
and cost. Also displays percent complete and percent work complete values for
the project as a whole. Accessed by the Project Statistics button or the
Project..Project Information..Statistics command. This information can also
be printed by using the 'Project Summary' report.

And here's the information from the help file

Statistics Opens the Project Statistics dialog box for the current project,
which you can use to review scheduled (schedule: The timing and sequence of
tasks within a project. A schedule consists mainly of tasks, task
dependencies, durations, constraints, and time-oriented project information.)
and actual (actual: Information that shows what has actually occurred. For
example, the actual start date for a task is the day that the task actually
started.) start and finish dates, durations, work, and costs.

I very much suspect that is all the documentation available.
 
G

Girija

Hi Ben ,

I would like to know what data against Baseline means ? Does it mean start
date as per the Baseline?

Thanks

Girija
 
B

Ben Howard

Yes, you've got it. Its all about comparing various data (start dates,
finish dates etc) between the baseline start, finish dates etc and the
current start, finish dates etc.
 
G

Girija

Does the duration include the duration of the critical path?
The reason I am asking is I have a project with the structure as given below


Module 1 - Duration 10 d
Task 1
Task 2
Module 2 - Duration 20 d
Task 1
Task 2

When I was viewing the Statistics. It displayed 20 d under duration. My
doubt was it it displaying the max duration or the duration of the ciritical
path.
 
B

Ben Howard

The duration will be the difference between the earliest start date and the
latest finishing date - in your terminology this is the maximum duration.
However, you don't really give enough information below as I cannot see the
relationships between module 1 and module 2.
 
G

Girija

Hi Ben,

1) Module 1 - Duration 8d Relation
2) Task 1 3
3) Task 2 5 2
4) Module 2 - Duration 14d
5) Task 1 6 2
6) Task 2 8 3,5
7) Inserted Project 1
8) Inserted Project 2

If you observe, Module 1 and Module 2 are at same level. Since the projects
are also inserted I was totally lost what does duration indicate under
statistics.

Thanks

Girij a N G
 
G

Girija

Hi Ben,

I couldnt also know which all tasks are considered to get the total
duration. Is there any way by which we can find the tasks which are
considered while finding the duration?

Thanks

Girija
 
G

Girija

Hi Ben,

1) Does duration contain only the working days?
2) Is there a way where we can change the format of the statistics, I mean
the way it displays maybe with additional information by adding fields, etc.

Thanks
Girija N G
 
B

Ben Howard

Hi,
Can I make a suggestion. Open a new project, type in a duration of 10 days,
view the gantt chart, and have a look at the number of days that the task
spans. That will tell you the answer to question 1.
For Q2, the answer is no.

As for the other posts, may I suggest that you begin to create a project
plan, and work through the numbers. You'll then begin to understand project,
the relationship between duration, work and units.

You'll learn far more this way in a 1/2 a day than you will be able to by
posting quesitons here.
 
G

Girija

Ben

I fact I tried with new project too. But I started getting messed up as
there were too many projects inserted in our scenario. Due to which I was not
clear if the duration was that of the longest path(hope that itself is the
critical path). I also have doubt as how many critical paths exist in a
project containing multiple inserted projects.

Thanks

Girija
 
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