Dates planning???

[Former Member]

My question is

1. I have structured a project

2. Defined dates for project and WBS

3 Defined activities and duration

3. Defined relationships

4. went to planning board and then opted for bottom up scenario and scheduled it ....................

the planned dates are going into the past .............................??????

i have planned dates of WBS(root WBS) , starting from today to 45 days ...........and even planned the dates for the 2nd level WBS , starting from today ..........................

Any mistake in the procedure??

pls guide me ............

wht r the checks i can do?????

[Former Member]

thanks a lot guys

[virendra_pal]

My question is

1. I have structured a project

2. Defined dates for project and WBS

do not do this at this stage

3 Defined activities and duration

3. Defined relationships

4. went to planning board and then opted for bottom up scenario and scheduled it ....................

use free scheduling instead of bottom up

now when you schedule the dates from the network activities will go to the WBS to whihc the activites are assigned

then in planning board

Edit-> reconcile dates -> extrapolate

this will update the higher level WBs elements

[Former Member]

hi

i have been doing the same ...there after .......

but still the dates are going into the past.........

any check points????

[Former Member]

Hi Surya,

Please follow the links mentioned below, here you will find everything related to scheduling :

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_45b/helpdata/en/c0/1885347860ea35e10000009b38f83b/frameset.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/3d/72369adc56d11195100060b03c6b76/frameset.htm

Thanks,

Dhruv Kumar Malhotra

Edited by: Dhruv Kumar Malhotra on Dec 30, 2008 7:19 AM

[virendra_pal]

are you sure you are doing free scheduling

also check the dates in past field

in planning board click on the options button and check the parameters

scheduling scenaio - free scheduling

for WBS - plan basic and forecast - open planning

WBS scheduling profile - forward

scheduling type - forward

sch method - network determine dates

no reduction

start in past = blank

make sure that all the dates in the project definiton and WBS are balnked out

[Former Member]

yes, i have already check it and changed it and the problem is solved right now

tell me one thing, this "START IN PAST" is only for scheduliung ........??

i have cleared it and is working fine ........................does it has any impact anywhere else?????

for partially confirmed activities .........................are the following steps are good?

1. Partially confirmed activities.

2. free scheduling with shift order ...............scheduled it

3. now can i go for bottom up? ?????? any impact ???????? if i do schweduling with the following parameters??????????

pls confirm me whether i am going in right direction?

[virendra_pal]

now that your basics is cleared

yes you can try bottom up now

set shift order as you want for partially confirmed activities

there should be no impact

but as a general rule ytou should usually follow only set of scheduling rules

for trial and error you can do whatever

start in the past is ot usually used as most project managers prefer today scheduling

i.e. what happens from now on

Edited by: Virendra Pal on Dec 30, 2008 10:49 AM