I come from the Primavera world of scheduling applications. Whereas, in P3
there exist a report that can be generated to show the scheduler if there are
problems with the schedule. These items include: which activities are
constrained; which activities are milestones; loops in the logic; open ended
activities; update status of activities that are out of sequence (ie, started
after the data date; started on the data date, etc); number of activities in
the project; and various other items.

I am unable to find nor generate a report of this sort. I would appreciate
your assistance because doing the schedule critique is very laborious in MSP
2003. Your help to find or create a report of this sort would be greatly
speed up my critique time.

TIA

Carey --

It would probably save you a ton of time to purchase an add-on product to
audit your projects. For example, Quantum PM makes a product called
Schedule Auditor for this purpose at:

http://www.quantumpm.com/qsa.aspx

Just a thought. Perhaps the others will have some ideas, too.

--
Dale A. Howard [MVP]
Enterprise Project Trainer/Consultant
http://www.msprojectexperts.com
http://www.projectserverexperts.com
"We wrote the book on Project Server"


"carey" <carey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:44A37A40-E494-4A64-9877-261F965DCDD8@microsoft.com...
>I come from the Primavera world of scheduling applications. Whereas, in P3
> there exist a report that can be generated to show the scheduler if there
> are
> problems with the schedule. These items include: which activities are
> constrained; which activities are milestones; loops in the logic; open
> ended
> activities; update status of activities that are out of sequence (ie,
> started
> after the data date; started on the data date, etc); number of activities
> in
> the project; and various other items.
>
> I am unable to find nor generate a report of this sort. I would appreciate
> your assistance because doing the schedule critique is very laborious in
> MSP
> 2003. Your help to find or create a report of this sort would be greatly
> speed up my critique time.
>
> TIA

Dale:

Thank you very much for the quick response. Your answer was very helpful and
confirmed my suspicion about that particular feature. Also, thanks for the
link. If anyone else out there has any ideas or other links, I would
appreciate your input and suggestions.

Again, thanks Dale.

"Dale Howard [MVP]" wrote:

> Carey --
>
> It would probably save you a ton of time to purchase an add-on product to
> audit your projects. For example, Quantum PM makes a product called
> Schedule Auditor for this purpose at:
>
> http://www.quantumpm.com/qsa.aspx
>
> Just a thought. Perhaps the others will have some ideas, too.
>
> --
> Dale A. Howard [MVP]
> Enterprise Project Trainer/Consultant
> http://www.msprojectexperts.com
> http://www.projectserverexperts.com
> "We wrote the book on Project Server"
>
>
> "carey" <carey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:44A37A40-E494-4A64-9877-261F965DCDD8@microsoft.com...
> >I come from the Primavera world of scheduling applications. Whereas, in P3
> > there exist a report that can be generated to show the scheduler if there
> > are
> > problems with the schedule. These items include: which activities are
> > constrained; which activities are milestones; loops in the logic; open
> > ended
> > activities; update status of activities that are out of sequence (ie,
> > started
> > after the data date; started on the data date, etc); number of activities
> > in
> > the project; and various other items.
> >
> > I am unable to find nor generate a report of this sort. I would appreciate
> > your assistance because doing the schedule critique is very laborious in
> > MSP
> > 2003. Your help to find or create a report of this sort would be greatly
> > speed up my critique time.
> >
> > TIA
>
>
>

In addition to Quantum's Schedule Auditor, there's also a tool from
http://www.pmwidgets.com called the Schedule Integrity Analyzer which calls
attention to a variety of integrity issues.

- Mike Oliver, PMP

"carey" wrote:

> I come from the Primavera world of scheduling applications. Whereas, in P3
> there exist a report that can be generated to show the scheduler if there are
> problems with the schedule. These items include: which activities are
> constrained; which activities are milestones; loops in the logic; open ended
> activities; update status of activities that are out of sequence (ie, started
> after the data date; started on the data date, etc); number of activities in
> the project; and various other items.
>
> I am unable to find nor generate a report of this sort. I would appreciate
> your assistance because doing the schedule critique is very laborious in MSP
> 2003. Your help to find or create a report of this sort would be greatly
> speed up my critique time.
>
> TIA

Thanks, Mike. I appreciate your response. I will check it out.

-Carey

"Mike Oliver, PMP" wrote:

> In addition to Quantum's Schedule Auditor, there's also a tool from
> http://www.pmwidgets.com called the Schedule Integrity Analyzer which calls
> attention to a variety of integrity issues.
>
> - Mike Oliver, PMP
>
> "carey" wrote:
>
> > I come from the Primavera world of scheduling applications. Whereas, in P3
> > there exist a report that can be generated to show the scheduler if there are
> > problems with the schedule. These items include: which activities are
> > constrained; which activities are milestones; loops in the logic; open ended
> > activities; update status of activities that are out of sequence (ie, started
> > after the data date; started on the data date, etc); number of activities in
> > the project; and various other items.
> >
> > I am unable to find nor generate a report of this sort. I would appreciate
> > your assistance because doing the schedule critique is very laborious in MSP
> > 2003. Your help to find or create a report of this sort would be greatly
> > speed up my critique time.
> >
> > TIA