Re: [taskjuggler] is it possible for tasks to shift when delayed?

From: Chris Schlaeger (cs_at_suse.de)
Date: Mon Jan 31 2005 - 18:24:08 CET


From: Chris Schlaeger <cs@suse.de>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:24:08 -0700
Message-Id: <200501311024.10593.cs@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [taskjuggler] is it possible for tasks to shift when delayed?


On Monday 31 January 2005 09:34, Caspar Terheggen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using TJ v2.0.1. I have a question.
>
> When a task in a project is delayed(*) it would be nice if this task
> would "shift" towards the future, i.e. that only the portion of the
> task which has finished is to the left of the "today" column in the
> "htmltaskreport" and the yet unfinished part is to the right. In
> other words: "green" bars in the past, "red" bars in the future. And
> of course tasks that depend on this delayed task should shift too.
> This way I can see what the impact of the delay is for the project
> as a whole. A "negative" shift for tasks finished earlier than
> planned/expected would of course be nice to have too. Is this
> possible?

That's what multiple scenarios are for. You just need to create a second
scenario and add the real values for this 2nd scenario. The FirstProject
example illustrates how to do this. See task gui which has a corrected effort
(40d instead of the planned 35d).

Chris

>
> (*)
> A task is delayed if the "complete" percentage is less than
> 100 * ( normal time / "effort" value ). The "normal time" is the
> time that TJ would normally have allocated for this task until today.
>
> cheers,
> Caspar

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