Hi,
HAPPY NEW YEAR! I Proudly announce that from 01.01.2012 I am MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional) for MS PROJECT 2010!
Lets go to work!
I will explain hot to reschedule Tasks or the whole Project with MS PROJECT 2010. Suppose that you have a Project, and you already started with some activities:
Now, suppose that you and all other resources have to stop with all activities on that Project, because you must work on another Project. After few weeks you are back on the old Project, but you should reschedule some tasks, or whole Project.
To do that you should first determine which tasks should you reschedule. I will reschedule them all:
and I will get:
Notice that start date of the Task2 is unchanged, because the activities on that task were started before moving the whole Project, and you have “strange” finish to start relationship. Also notice that for Task3, and Task4 the Start no earlier is set:
you will notice that Task2 is 75% completed, but before Task1 was finished. So I will make Task2 0% completed, and repeat the moving and I will get:
This is more “reasonable” situation.
I I want to move all tasks, no matter it they were started or not I can do that like this:
and I will get:
and then:
Notice that all Task are moved, no matter if they were started or not.
Finally, suppose that I have a Project with over allocated Resources like this:
I want to move all my Tasks in a way that my Resource will be no longer over allocated. I con use this function:
and I will get:
If you are not happy with provided solution, you can still reschedule your Tasks as you want, as it was described earlier in this post!
Regards,
Nenad Trajkovski 
Congratulations on the MVP.
So what if we aren’t moving the project, just adding time to a task where a dependent task was able to start early. As an example
Task A 10 days
Task B 2 days
Task C 5 days
A is a predecessor of B. B is a predecessor of C.
Work is started on B, 50% complete
It is determined that A is going to take longer, 15 days
The Problem: Changing A to 15 days doesn’t cause the times to recalculate for B and C because of the work percentage for B being 50%. Is there an elegant way around this?
The only way I’ve been able to do this is to delete out the percentage, add the days to A, then re-enter the percentages. That isn’t hard on such a small example. But in real life, with larger projects, it just doesn’t work. Suggestions?
Congratulations on the MVP status! Your posts have been valuable for me as I figure out how to use Project 2010 with SharePoint 2010 to create a project tracking and management solution without using Project Server 2010. Thanks!