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Best Practice for Timelines with Formal Project Mgmt Process


Todd Goldstein (76119) | asked Jun 22 '11, 8:28 a.m.
retagged Jun 17 '13, 5:05 p.m. by Michael Prentice (622913)
I am using RTC with the Formal Project Management Process Template and wanted to know the best practice for creating timelines. This implementation is for traditional non-product development projects.

The project(s) my team work on differ however from a management point of view, we review information on a monthly, quarterly, and yearly basis.

I'm wondering if it makes more sense to leverage the tree structure and create the following:

Level 1 - 2011
Level 2 - Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4
Level 3 - Jan, Feb, Mar...Dec

OR should I flatten everything and have 1 level? How much will this impact the Plan view?

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Geoffrey Clemm (30.1k33035) | answered Jun 22 '11, 6:20 p.m.
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I'd suggest the former approach, i.e. leverage the tree structure. This
allows you to plan at any of the three levels (when you create a plan,
you would specify at what level you want the plan to be).

Cheers,
Geoff

On 6/22/2011 8:38 AM, tgoldstein wrote:
I am using RTC with the Formal Project Management Process Template and
wanted to know the best practice for creating timelines. This
implementation is for traditional non-product development projects.


The project(s) my team work on differ however from a management point
of view, we review information on a monthly, quarterly, and yearly
basis.

I'm wondering if it makes more sense to leverage the tree structure
and create the following:

Level 1 - 2011
Level 2 - Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4
Level 3 - Jan, Feb, Mar...Dec

OR should I flatten everything and have 1 level? How much will this
impact the Plan view?

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