Dear Frank Borcherdt

CAN YOU ELABORATE MORE ON THE “PROGRAM” YOU HAVE MENTIONED ABOVE!!!

Regards,

A.S.SHUKLA
shukla@myrealbox.com

Yes, that’s exactly what I mean. You need to do this double work if you are working in P3 3.1. P5 can do it automatically.

Physical Progress cannot be rolled up. Just to illustrate - how can you add or roll up 25% of drawings and 50% excavation physically? It is not possible physically. However if you have cost loaded both the activities, you can then roll up the earned value cost of any odd types of activities together and calculate % complete for your hammock or roll up. In P3e an above you can do it however in P3 3.1, since there is only one type of % complete, you will have to do this calculation out of P3 (in spreadsheet for example).

Yes, I meant to say WBS. I was writing the posts without even checking it in software. And activiity type WBS is available in both P3 3.1 and P5. In a number of situations in the project, work is broken down to details but it is not practical to load resources at those micro levels of activities. WBS type of activities then come handy at that moment - you can assign resource to WBS activity only (which is hammock or summary of a group of activities). When you progress the individual activities, the WBS activity gets progressed automatically and you can get earned value and other calculations at that level easily. You cannot do this in ordinary hammock activity which is merely a time from start of an activity to finish of another activity.

There is no WBS hammock but WBS is act like hammock. I think what he mean is WBS as WBS summary in P3e or P5. If you assign activity as WBS, you don’t need to link your activity where hammock required to define the link SS to first activity and FF to last activity same as level of effort in P3e/P5. When activities are assign as hammock or WBS, the progress was updated automatically when you update the activities under the hammock or WBS. Regards, Rodel

IN P3 V-3 , THERE ARE ONLY HAMMOCKS ONLY IN TYPE OF TASKS . I DID NOT FIND ANY WBS HAMMOCK

hello bijaya,
i needed some more information on this how can be activity assigned as WBS hammock.
regards
deb

Not quite.

You can roll up a series of activities as WBS hammock. You don’t need to make any link to WBS hammock (unlike hammock activity where you need to give SS and FF link).

When you update your individual activities with progress, the WBS hammock activity gets updated automatically. It is this way not the other way.