Project is the spawn of the devil and a great example of the difference between precision and accuracy ("This project will end at 11:23am 05/06/2013 because MSP says so!", very precise, very unlikely to be accurate.)
I'm having trouble with a project file. trying to set up a project based on tasks that take multiples of half days 1, 2, 3.5, 7.5 etc and on a
working week of M,T,W,T,F and a half day saturday where weekdays are obviously 1 day duration.
However i seem to set things up I can get things right. It keeps pushing the end of each task into the morning of the next day. So by the by the end
of a 4 month program I'm over by weeks and weeks. If I set up a 1 day task it finishes on the following morning bumping the end of its dependent
task into the middle of the third day.
Another example is I have a 7.5 day task which is showing on the gantt chart as a 10 day task despite being entered as a 7.5 day task on the duration
pane on the left.
I'd previously set this up graphically in excel using shaded cells which worked great, but I'm losing the will to live on project!!!!
Can anyone help?!!?!?!?
[Edited on 5/10/11 by liam.mccaffrey]
[Edited on 5/10/11 by liam.mccaffrey]
MS Project bases it calcs on a 5 - 2 week, and so 7.5 days would show as a week and a half,.....
u2u if you want to email me a file to play with,...
And there was me thinking this'd be about Megasquirt
Project is the spawn of the devil and a great example of the difference between precision and accuracy ("This project will end at 11:23am
05/06/2013 because MSP says so!", very precise, very unlikely to be accurate.)
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Originally posted by scudderfish
And there was me thinking this'd be about Megasquirt
Project is the spawn of the devil and a great example of the difference between precision and accuracy ("This project will end at 11:23am 05/06/2013 because MSP says so!", very precise, very unlikely to be accurate.)
open the calendar and set up your default working week to include 4 hours on saturday.
Enter your tasks as hours.
Schedule on hours not days.
(if that doesn't work - get someone who knows what they're doing involved).
I think I have it sorted now, albeit by fudging. Thanks for your help chaps
[Edited on 5/10/11 by liam.mccaffrey]