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bbuechel
Mar 04, 2020Copper Contributor
Howto work with large projects with many similar groups of tasks? Best practice
Hi,
this is the scenario:
TV-Production with 50 Episodes. Let's say every Episode contains:
- Episode 1
- Preproduction (5d)
- Production (8d)
- Postproduction (10d?)
- Delivery (milestone) (0d)
- Episode 2
- Preproduction (5d)
- Production (8d)
- Postproduction (10d?)
- Delivery (milestone) (0d)
a.s.o.a.s.f
At the time of the project start we do not know how much time the Postproduction will take on average. So we assume 10days.
Questions:
- Every Episode has the same set of subtasks. How can I distinguish the tasks in teamplanner? Do I have to rename every subtask to make the name unique? (In most of the other Tables and views I can use the column "summarytask name")
- What if I want to change the duration of every "Postproduction" subtask because I notice that it takes 15 days on average? How would I do this (filter the tasks and drag'n'fill new durations or would you work with pasted links (paste special) in this cells? The latter seems a bit buggy to me in MS Project 2016. If I copy an Episode which contains pasted links it seems to be unreliable, some work some don't)
- How would you (the pros) prepare such a project.
- Is it best practice to place the "Delivery" Milestones on the same hierarchical level as the Episodes?
I hope someone can push me in the right direction.
Many thanks in advance
Björn
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