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Level of Effort and Critical Path

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Wed, 2007-05-02 13:09
Sebastian Rush
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Hi all! I have a master schedule with a number of LEO activities, but when I schedule by using longest path as critical, they do not "turn" red??? Can someone educate me a bit on this please.

Thanks.

Seb
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Wed, 2008-05-07 09:19
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Dean Mulligan
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Interesting David, I’ll try that now
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Wed, 2008-05-07 07:16
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David Podmore
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Just a last note; have you tried using a WBS Summary task? It mimics a WBS parent without being one AND can be on the Critical Path.
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Wed, 2008-05-07 04:51
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Dean Mulligan
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Gordon .... thanks for the tip on P6, it’s been quite annoying for years that a rollup has to be done again and again ........
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Wed, 2008-05-07 04:49
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Dean Mulligan
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Thanks guys, a colleague said I could drive the colour through coding. This is the best way forward for me now (even though I may have to revert to the WBS option - Plan B!!).

And I am trying to do it using the Activity ID but the filter changes ALL the LOE activity colours. How can I isolate just 1 activity? Also everytime I run the filter and then go back in ALL the settings go back to "all activities" ie it loses the settings I want and goes to default ..... why is that?
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Wed, 2008-05-07 01:43
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Alex Wong
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Hi

LOF is same as the old "Hammock" activity, it provide the summary effort of the linked activity, however, it cannot be a critical because simply is id not form part of the detail critical path.

To achieve what you wanted in a report format you can use coding to drive the LOE activities to turn RED color.

HTH

Alex
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Tue, 2008-05-06 11:22
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Gordon Blair
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Dean,

I tend to just use the WBS, run a rolled up layout and where the WBS contains critical activities, they will show on the summary bar.

[The benefit of P6 being that you can save the ’roll-up level’ when you save the layout]
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Tue, 2008-05-06 10:20
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Dean Mulligan
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Hi, I’d like to know more about establishing a critical path using LOE bars. For example in a programme that has 1000+ activities that role up to say 50 LOE’s - it may be useful to show which LOE’s are ’representing’ critical activities

I’ve looked at creating a ’New’ LOE bar (with a filter) to go with the Remaining and Actual LOE’s - this looks tricky and may not be possible, before I waste a week doing this, has anyone else tried and succeeded????
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Wed, 2007-05-02 22:24
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hamed planner
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Hi Seb,

As you said you have a Level OF Effort Activity,

Level of effort is not part o your critical path becouse its duration is defined base on your critical path Duration,
As an example , you have a project and you have security guard on site , you could not say Security guard is part of your Critical Path, becouse the duration of Perform security task is depend on your project Duration , the same for Services , Supervision ( In some cases) , PMO Offic


Good Luck

Hamed
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