Recurring Milestones - Progress?
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Philip KearneyMember for 24 years 7 months
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Currently masterplanning a major manufacturing project in Dublin at the moment.
Client wants his programme in MS Project so I decided to do the planning in a master plan format with the programmes broken into areas which are all linked back into 1 master plan using a milestone summary at the top so I can filter out the "works" to report using the milestone summary to show progress.
I also included a series of recurring milestones for commercial aspects of the project which are linked to some of the "technical/engineering" aspects of the project.
Thats all fine & dandy until I find out that my summary of the recurring milestones is not giving me a % of what is progressed as it stays at 0% when it should be at 40% ie 10 recurring milestones with 4 completed hence 40% complete but yet the summary tells me 0%???!!!!
Anyone here have any idea to get around this as it bothers me & I find it embarrassing to show on my report where my client expects to see % progress & notices the summary at 0%!
I understand that milestones are either 0 or 100% as have no physical value to them but surely after a series of milestones, there should be some form of period progression showing?
Client wants his programme in MS Project so I decided to do the planning in a master plan format with the programmes broken into areas which are all linked back into 1 master plan using a milestone summary at the top so I can filter out the "works" to report using the milestone summary to show progress.
I also included a series of recurring milestones for commercial aspects of the project which are linked to some of the "technical/engineering" aspects of the project.
Thats all fine & dandy until I find out that my summary of the recurring milestones is not giving me a % of what is progressed as it stays at 0% when it should be at 40% ie 10 recurring milestones with 4 completed hence 40% complete but yet the summary tells me 0%???!!!!
Anyone here have any idea to get around this as it bothers me & I find it embarrassing to show on my report where my client expects to see % progress & notices the summary at 0%!
I understand that milestones are either 0 or 100% as have no physical value to them but surely after a series of milestones, there should be some form of period progression showing?
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Oldest first- 0Philip Kearney ·Thanks for replying!
I have given up hope on these recurring activities! Not gonna use them again as they do no purpose for progress!
Microsoft, take note please!
Yes, my s-curve is generated in excel & it show its worth.
What I have done is, took out the recurring activities as it was giving me grief & replaced it with a number of independent 1 day task but marked as milestones so it can be recorded at whatever % I will deem it at.
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