Can anyone offer some guidance ?
I use ASTA and all my tasks are linked up from design through to delivery and installation. When there is a delay in design for example, that obviously has a knock on affect with the procurement, delivery etc. What generally happens is i issue a report showing the variance to the PM's and because all the tasks are linked that delay shows all the way through so my reports all have a red priority on them. But installation may not be happening until 2016 so that 2016 task is not really in delay, but is being reported as such . Rather than sit down with me and advise how they plan to bring all the successor tasks back on track so i can adjust the programme to suit, it just gets left. So the programmes are not being used correctly and it is very frustrating. Is there anything that you do that i can implement?
I was wondering if i could use different baselines to report different areas or perhaps keep two programmes, one internal showing all the design, proc and Man tasks and one for the site work, but if i didnt link all the internal tasks to the install how could i monitor delay ? Im not sure what to do for the best.