Tag Archives: Micorosft Project 2016 – Schedule

Fixed duration Tasks and over allocation resolution in MS PROJECT 2016

Hi, I have interesting question form one of my Blog Readers: “I have below query in Fixed Duration Task.Step1: created a task “paint the wall” with duration as 10 days (work starts by a Monday). Task is fixed durationStep2: created … Continue reading

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Replacing Resources on partial done Tasks–Microsoft Project 2016

Hi, I have a question from my Blog reader: “Hi Nenad and thank you very much for your blog. I have a question for you. Suppose you have a 10d task with a generic resource assigned to it ( total … Continue reading

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%Complete vs. %Work Complete in MS PROJECT 2016!–when to use what?

  Hi, very often I have questions like this one: Dear Nenad, I am going to develop a scheduled for a petrochemical plant shutdown project. My question is: “What percent complete should i use (% Complete or Work % Complete) … Continue reading

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%Complete, %Work Complete, and Project without Resources with MS PROJECT 2016!

Hi, I’ve got a question from one of my Blog Readers: “Please clarify the following: I have created a Sample project in MS Project 2013, with tasks and assigned duration  with required predecessors.I have base lined the plan and started … Continue reading

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Resource capacity in Hours with MS PROJECT 2016 – is it possible?

Hi, my Blog Reader has a question: “I have a project plan with certain milestones which are to be completed on specific dates and I have resources assigned. But as per plan, the resource allocation hours are reduced whereas in … Continue reading

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Actual Duration, Actual work and Fixed work Tasks in MS PROJECT 2016

Hi, here is one problem that my Blog Reader has (I will go step by step, and I will use MS PROJECT 2016) “When multiple resources are assigned to the task, for a given Total Work we can  calculates the   … Continue reading

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Effect of initial resource assignment on calculation of Individual resource’s work in MS PROJECT 2016

Hi, I’ve got very good question form one of my Blog readers: “The effect  of initial resource assignment on  calculation  of  Individual resource’s work. Suppose we want have two resources R1 (100%) and R2(50%) to work on a 20h fixed … Continue reading

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Relation between Overtime and Duration in MS PROJECT 2016

Hi, I have a question from oen of my Blog readers: “Every time I allocate the whole work hours to overtime hours the Duration column turns into 0 and the start and finish dates and time are the same. Why?” … Continue reading

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Extended Duration with Fixed working hours–MS PROJECT 2016

Hi, I have very interesting question from one of my Blog readers: “Hi Nenad, I would appreciate if you could advise on the following two  topics: 1. How to handle the situation when a task is delayed due to some … Continue reading

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% Complete and Actual hours for particular Resource in MS PROJECT 2016

Hi, I got interesting question from one of my Blog Readers: “Nenad this is very helpful, however, how would you adjust the scenario where the Actual work by John (100%) and Tom (50%) who are two resources assigned to this … Continue reading

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