Work Rollup-Level Totals

One of the project managers I work with showed me a project schedule into
which she has begun entering task estimates; she asked why the totals of most
rollup-level tasks are wrong. For example (this is one of many), a group
task has 3 sub-tasks of 2 days work each. But the roll-up total is 8 days.

I can't explain it. Where do I look? What am I missing?

Thanks,
Bill

WillW
Fri May 09 12:50:03 CDT 2008

Sorry -- I neglected to mention that I'm referring to the Work column in the
issue below.

A bit more information: the sub-tasks have resources that are less than
100% allocated.

"WillW" wrote:

> One of the project managers I work with showed me a project schedule into
> which she has begun entering task estimates; she asked why the totals of most
> rollup-level tasks are wrong. For example (this is one of many), a group
> task has 3 sub-tasks of 2 days work each. But the roll-up total is 8 days.
>
> I can't explain it. Where do I look? What am I missing?
>
> Thanks,
> Bill

Jan
Fri May 09 14:12:37 CDT 2008

Hi,

There probably also is a resource assigned to the summary task which would
account for the extra work.
HTH

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Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
+32 495 300 620
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"WillW" <WillW@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:47C5E5E7-C3AC-4AA6-B22F-63EF49F347BC@microsoft.com...
> Sorry -- I neglected to mention that I'm referring to the Work column in
> the
> issue below.
>
> A bit more information: the sub-tasks have resources that are less than
> 100% allocated.
>
> "WillW" wrote:
>
>> One of the project managers I work with showed me a project schedule into
>> which she has begun entering task estimates; she asked why the totals of
>> most
>> rollup-level tasks are wrong. For example (this is one of many), a group
>> task has 3 sub-tasks of 2 days work each. But the roll-up total is 8
>> days.
>>
>> I can't explain it. Where do I look? What am I missing?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bill

WillW
Fri May 09 14:21:25 CDT 2008

Thanks -- I was just going to try to cancel this request. I just noticed she
did assign a resource to the summary task. When I removed it, the total
adjusted correctly.

"Jan De Messemaeker" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> There probably also is a resource assigned to the summary task which would
> account for the extra work.
> HTH
>
> --
> Jan De Messemaeker
> Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
> +32 495 300 620
> For availability check:
> http://users.online.be/prom-ade/Calendar.pdf
> "WillW" <WillW@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:47C5E5E7-C3AC-4AA6-B22F-63EF49F347BC@microsoft.com...
> > Sorry -- I neglected to mention that I'm referring to the Work column in
> > the
> > issue below.
> >
> > A bit more information: the sub-tasks have resources that are less than
> > 100% allocated.
> >
> > "WillW" wrote:
> >
> >> One of the project managers I work with showed me a project schedule into
> >> which she has begun entering task estimates; she asked why the totals of
> >> most
> >> rollup-level tasks are wrong. For example (this is one of many), a group
> >> task has 3 sub-tasks of 2 days work each. But the roll-up total is 8
> >> days.
> >>
> >> I can't explain it. Where do I look? What am I missing?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Bill
>
>
>