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Hello, I am trying to close a pfoject in Primavera P6, which has not been completed but has to be closed untimely.
Some activities, which had been planned earlied and which were going to start in the future, never started.
How do I properly close it in Primavera P6?
For example, today is 25 July 2017. Activity A is the latest activity and is planned to start on 1 January 2018 and finish on 1 January 2020.
I have closed the project but the finish date of the project shows 1 Jan 2020. How do I need to deal with unstarted activities? Do I mark them "finished" and put some random date that was before the 25 Jul 2017 or do I just delete unstarted activities so the project finish date is not affected?
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In unfinished projects the practice to keep deleted activities is even worse.
GAO Schedule Assessment Guide Best Practices for Project Schedules suggests keeping deleted activities and logic while setting duration to 0. See page 140 of 240.
http://www.gao.gov/assets/680/674404.pdf
GAO is wrong, leaving deleted activities as well as leaving the original logic in place is not best practice:
Among other things the last schedules update:
Spider Project allows you to display deleted activities on a conspicuous way when comparing schedule versions and without the risk of interfering with current schedule, easy and transparent. If your software lacks enough functionality it is no excuse to promote such misleading and error prone practice.
ok but first make a copy of the schedule and leave it as it just in case it reopens. It cant hurt. Name the project junk for superceeded something like that
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Thank you for your reply.
I presume the best option would be to make finish/start date of the activities that have NOT started equal to the date when the project is closing and the finish date of activities that have started equal to the date when the project is closing, too.
The reporting team are not happy to see the finish date of the closed project in the future, so options 2 and 3 are applicable to my case. Of course, if the project is likely to be re-opened, other options are acceptable but if the project has been closed permamently, options 2 and 3 are the best.
you have several options
option #1
Leave it as is. This way if the project ever re-starts you know what still need to be done as per the original scope.
option #2
for every activity that has started but has not finished make the actual finish date equal to the date that you were instructed to Stop and put a note in the notebook tab saying what you did and why
option #3
or every activity that has NOT started and has not finished make the actual start and actual finish date equal to the date that you were instructed to Stop and put a note in the notebook tab saying what you did and why. You can do this with a global change.
Option #4
Leave it as is and for activities that are started but not done and or not started and not done and put a note in the notebook tab
Option #5
Leave as is and in the Project Name say that the project was closed on such and such a date
Email: PPadmin@planningplanet.com
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