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  1. mmfranke

    Deleted Tasks Still Show In Resource Usage

    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...
  2. mmfranke

    More meeting setup

    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"...
  3. mmfranke

    Meeting Overhead

    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...
  4. mmfranke

    Working Time changes cause unexpected results

    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...

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