AHA!
Once I'd formed my question in my previous post, it gave me something else upon which to google. Soon, I had my answer:
http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1533443&page=1
Mike
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I tried an experiment. I opened my Resource Pool.mpp file, using the Resource Usage view. From there, I then tried to delete one of the tasks that should no longer be in my plan.
I get a dialog that says "The item or information you are accessing is in an unopened sharer...
Hello
My project plan consists of a Master.mpp and a dozen or so separate .mpp files for various parts of the project (Development, Validation, Documentation, Overhead, etc...). All of these files are in a single directory called "Project Plan". Recently, I made a copy of that directory for...
Thanks! The Resource Usage page indeed showed different numbers of hours for the different resources. I manually edited them in the Resource Usage page, and Voila!
But WHY? If I have a fixed-duration, non-effort-driven task that's two days long, I would think that assigning any resource to...
Hello again
In addition to accounting for the actual time and resources needed to hold a large extended meeting (see previous thread entitled "Meeting Overhead"), I'd like to add a task for "meeting preparation" ahead of the meeting (prep ends when the meeting starts), and "meeting follow-up"...
Hello. I'd like to account for the overhead of formal design review meetings in terms of resource usage and cost accounting. Say my meeting will be two four-hour sessions, over two days.
What I've done to try and account for this is to enter the task as a fixed duration of two days...
I was given a project in which the calendar is set to use 6.4 hours per day, 32 hours per week and 16 days per month. I believe these settings were used in an attempt to account for overhead -- time that the resources don't get to spend on the actual project.
First, if I create a task of 5...
