Hello All,
if you have Planned a project and after starting updating it,you find that you have entered a couple of activities that are not happening actually and Need to be deleted.What do you do??
Will you have to make another schedule?? Because if you delete those extra activities then your baseline will be disturbed and it will ultimately disturb the Logic.
Please give you opinion.
Best Regards,
Faiz
Ask why these activities arent now happening, if is a contractual change then clearly the baseline still needs to reflect the original sequence and timing of works.
If it is an error on your part that these works were included, just add a note to the schedule to say why the sequence has changed.
As suggested by someone else I would put duration to 0 and leave it in, therefore baseline will show what the origianl intent was. I find that it is best to keep thngs simple and keep an audit trail of changes.
Months down the line you maybe questioning why the baseline has deleted items etc.
If tho the original sequence if wrong and therefore the baseline is wrong, why not delete the works and re baseline, if you are already well into the programme you may struggle to change baseline, but in this case that was your intent at the time the baseline was saved.
Sorry waffled a bit here.
Thanks Tony
Muthukumaru Senth...
Excellent Sugestion.You got exactly what i was asking.Thanks mate.
Regards.
Hi;
As you mentioned you have you planned the activities in the programme and started to update the programme.
When we updated the actual progress we may get some additional activities and some omission of the activities.
For later reference and comparison this activity can be updated as 100% completed with zero duration.
How is that suggestion?
Senthuran
AB,
The simple thing to do is to make the activity into a milestone. Thats it. Dont try to confused urself with the dissolving or deleting activities.
Cheers,
Bill
AB,
I would suggest that you dissolve the activity or activities that you are trying to get rid of. After doing this, I would release your baseline, make a copy of it, open the copy as a different project and disolve the same activites. Then you can pull the two back into the original project and use either as a comparison. I would put notes in the activities before and after the disolved activites with an explination why you did this as well as why you did it in the baseline. This way you will have documentation as well as the original and revised baseline.
Hope this clarifies any issues.
Hi Faizal,
It is certainly will affect the programme, however if your concern is the PC date, provided the the task that you will dissolve is not in the critical path your PC date won't change.
Cheers,
Thanks for the Reply,
But Will it Effect the Baseline also????I want to keep my baseline same
Ragards
Hello,
If you want to delete the activities which are linked to other activities, ie., if A,B,C activities are there and they are linked FS of all activities.
Now if you want to link the activity by deleting B & connecting A & C, then in P6 there will be option like click on the activity & right click, use disolve option then automatically B will delete & A will get precedor to C.
Hope this clears your doubt.