TABLE OF CONTENTS Statusing a project with resources employs a number of preferencesand options, which are very interactive and will require a significant amount of practice by a userto understand and master them.
It is often considered best practice to update a project between 10 and 20 times in itslifecycle. Some companies update schedules to correspond with accounting periods, which arenormally every month. This frequency is often too long for projects that are less than a year induration, as too much change may happen in one month. Therefore more frequent updating may identifyproblems earlier.
After reading this chapter and before working on a live project, inexperienced users shouldgain confidence with the software by:
Creating a new project and setting the Defaults, Preferences and Options toreflect the method you wish to enter information and how you want Primavera Version 4.1 tocalculate the project data.
Creating two or three activities and then assigning two or three resources to each activity.
Update the Activities and Resources as if you were updating a schedule and observe theresults.
Alter the preferences and defaults if you are not receiving the result you require. Reupdateand note the preferences and defaults for future reference.
Some of these settings may have been set by your organization and you may not be assignedaccess rights to change the settings. You should still go through the statusing process in a testproject with dummy data similar to your real project data and be prepared to change those settingsto which you do have access, as...
