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Hello,
Can Monitoring Milestones like "Receive all Equipment", "Finish all MEP works" be kept open-ended if it does not have any single logical successor?
if otherwise, lot of float is generated (calculated upto project end).
How do you deal with this?
-Haroon
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Hi Haroon,
You have one of two options:
1- assign a constrain on the activity to finish on/ afte/ before a certain given date
2- Link this activity to the final milestone of the project (for example finish project)
Regards
Aziz
Hi Haroon
This setting does only mean that if you'll filter for critical activities they'll be included to remind you to link them.
In your case this link is - as Mike wrote before - irrelevant. I wouldn't mark this option.
Regards
Dieter
Hi Haroon
If the "monitoring milestones" such as "receive all euipment" are not linked to something in the programme then are pointless unless they are just in place for reporting purposes or to trigger some sort of stage payment.
In which case any float is irelevant.
Best regards
Mike Testro
Hi Vladimir,
I forgot to mention that you should tick the "Make open-ended activities critical" under Schedule options.
-Haroon
Open ended activities in any case have huge total floats. They may be delayed up to project finish, so linking them with finish milestone does not increase their floats.
Hi Vladimir,
Linking like that will again generate huge Total float.
Haroon
If somebody will insist on No open ends link all open end milestones with project finish milestone.
Hello Dieter,
I will state it on the "Basis of Schedule/Schedule Assumptions" document.
Thank you for validating this method. I was worried if this was a taboo since everybody goes by the 'no-open-ends-except-first-and-last-activity' logic.
Haroon
P.S: yes, the same Haroon Al Rasheed ;)
Hi Haroon (Hārūn ar-Raschīd?)
Before you start your planning you write down all assumptions and discuss them with the PM. The use of open end control milestones for reporting purpose in my opinion is absolutely but must be part of this discussion and part of the planning procedure. Otherwise this might lead to misunderstandings.
Have a good planning
Dieter
Email: PPadmin@planningplanet.com
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