Time granularity in Project

[major.tal]

Hi all,

We started trying to do our high level planning with MS Project.
Our granularity is Months, and while I know how to configure the GUI to
work with months I don't know how to set the engine itself to work this
way.

I set "Work is entered in Months" and "Schedule is entered in Months".
I set the timescales of the different views to show months.
I have also set the leveling resolution.

The problem is everything is converted to days within the engine!

I start a task January 1st with a duration of 2 months.
It will not end by the end of February! There is always some annoying
skew.

I Even if I get it right, once the task is moved to a different month
it will change again since the months have a different amount of work
days (which I don't care about at this stage!)

Can I somehow configure the software to work with Months as the basic
element?

Crazy idea: should I change my calendar so that all months have exactly
20 work days?

Thanks in advance,

Tal.

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

No, sorry.
The time granularity is tenth of a minute, and that cannot be changed.
As you have noticed, everything is linearly converted from and to
minutes-hours
See Tools, Options, Calendar for the conversion factors
HTH

 

[major.tal]

OK, so this becomes a methodology question (it started as a technical
question):
How do you use Project for high level planning, where "months" is the
lowest granularity you care about?

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

The only thing you can do is what you wrote in your firsdt message, set the
GUI to months.
But when it displays mo or Mon in the data they will be converted from/to
minutes anyway :-(
HTH