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Risk analysis in Spider

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Evgeny Z. 👤 Member for 18 years 4 months

Spider has a nice feature of probabilistic analysis of project completion date, cost etc. It is based on optimistic, pessimistic and most probable schedule scenarios.

It is clear, that probability to meet optimistic scenario is 0%, pessimistic is 100%. However the question is: how does it calculate probabilities for values in between optimistic and pessimistic?

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Using resource skills feature

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Evgeny Z. 👤 Member for 18 years 4 months

I now have finally found some  time to look at Spider.  I mostly look at features, which are not available  in MS Project. One of the really cool ones (based on my understanding) is resource skills, however I just can’t make it work. I must say, I did not read the manuals from A to Z, so may be I just missed the description.

I did mage to create resource skills and make a relation between skills and resources.

Then I assigned to all of my activities skills.  I assigned only skills without assigning resources directly.

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Updating of Milestone Activities

When updating a job usually things happen different to as planned so even milestone activities must be updated correctly.

Sometimes the actual date of a Milestone is not clear and errors do happen so I wonder if there is a way to model Milestones that do not require updating, like if a special kind of link, that will be scheduled [ASAP/ALAP] based on predecessor actual no matter how different from as planned. Essentially a way to make this activities [or special links] actual dates to be a computed value not an input value.

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Actual and base version. Add new info?

 

Sorry for bad language. As update baseline project with  new information?  Baseline project was placed with docs old, in process of construction, amount may be changed, new information is recieved . Plus new construction documents is going out. Change and track each activity and update data in baseline is very hard to me. Maybe  you have solutions?

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Re-created project updates using Spider Project

I am re-creating project updates using the “Blindsight” Method

In this method, it is assumed that the analyst does not have the update schedule for the succeeding period and has no knowledge of the project conditions later than the update under investigation. Therefore, the analyst must stand in the shoes of the scheduler at the time of the project. Note that the progress curve created by this method assumes a straight line.

i. IF: data date (DD) - actual start of the activity (AS) < original duration (OD), THEN:

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Can Spider change the % of assignment, when doing resource leveling?

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Can Spider change the % of assignment, when doing resource leveling?

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Evgeny Z. 👤 Member for 18 years 4 months

Dear all,

 

I asked the question at MS Project forum (with negative answer), but I know wonder whether Spider can do it:

 

http://www.planningplanet.com/forums/microsoft-project/527763/can-ms-project-change-assignment-when-doing-resource-leveling

 

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