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Keith HeaneyMember for 14 years 11 months
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hope someone can help me I'm working on a project that has a lot of contract instructions issued by the clients represenative, the way I deal with them is to find out from our site staff which instructions cause extra work or delay, then add the effects in as a new task(s) on the programme linked to the affected task(s), I also put in a milestone indicating the date the instruction was recieved, this indicates the start of the subnetwork.

 

I try to add new instructions before I update the progress on the programme. my problem is that I don't know where the delays come from, the instruction or the lack of progress. when I take a walk round site to observe current progress, the delays are obvious and when I record the % complete,  the percentages takes into account the contract instructions i.e lack of progress.

 

I do two versions of the progress report one with the progress line straighted without instructions and one with the instructions added, I'm not sure which reports the correct delay.

 

How should I account for the CI's???/  ?/

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    Mike Testro ·
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    Hi Keith First welcome to

    Hi Keith

    First welcome to planning planet

    You are going about it the right way by adding a task to represent any extra work and then recording progress.

    You may be assuming that the extra work delays the start of the affected task which may not always be the case.

    Another method is to extend the affected task by the duration of the extra work and record progress on the extended task - you can change to colur code to distinguish them from regular tasks.

    You do not need to keep two programmes going to show the differences.

    In Library Explorer > Link Categories you can set up a link category for instructions and colour it blue.

    Use this category to link your instructions

    Then in Options > Reschedule > Ignore Link Category

    You can switch the instruction link on and off as required for progress update.

    I use this facility when adding delay events to a task during delay analysis - it also helps when doing any what if scenarios.

    Best regards

    Mike Testro

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