ms project integration: tips, tricks and what's new for you
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MS Project Integration: Tips, Tricks and What's New for You
Mindy Calderon
ICX17E #CAWorld
Senior Instructor, North America CA Technologies
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Abstract
Have you scheduled in Microsoft Project (MSP) and are now presented with the "Tasks" to
maintain a schedule in CA Clarity? Is your organization using CA Clarity but still wants to
schedule in MS Project? Have you noticed that the logic in how CA Clarity schedules is different
in MS Project? And most importantly - wouldn't it be awesome to be able to explain why CA
Clarity and MS Project behave differently but ultimately get you the same result? The session
will show you where and how MSP and CA Clarity bi-directionally map data, how to create and
manage tasks, assignments and scheduling, as well as updating task status and work. It
includes a broad discussion where and when data should be entered in Clarity and MS Project,
on defining data elements and how to capture them.
Mindy Calderon
CA Technologies
Senior Instructor
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Agenda
INTEGRATION OVERVIEW
CUSTOM VIEWS
WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURE
RESOURCES AND MS PROJECT
Q & A
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Summary A Few Words to Describe MS Project Integration with Clarity
Results
MS Project and CA Clarity PPM bi-directionally maps data, manages tasks, assignments and scheduling as well as updating task status. The Clarity project acts as the ‘umbrella’ for PM methodology . The result is a project that follows Project Management and Scheduling standards.
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Definitions
INTEGRATION – BIDIRECTIONAL DATA FLOW USING NEW XML DRIVER
METHODOLOGY – CONSISTENT AND REPEATABLE SCHEDULING AND MANAGING PROCESSES
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This is NOT a Technical Session: Understand from a Functional Perspective
Integration Overview
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Identify the MS Project Integration
Schedule Projects – Microsoft Project
Set Scheduler Format attribute default to Microsoft Project
PICK ONE AND STICK WITH IT! – Per project
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Identify and Install the MSP Interface
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Bi-Directional
New xml file – same location as the .mpp file
Usually in the My Documents folder
Supportable – old integration no longer supported by Microsoft
When you launch a plan from the CA Clarity PPM
screen, it exports this plan to your local client
system.
After you complete updating your session from
within Microsoft Project, you will select Save
from the Clarity Integration toolbar to retain your
updates
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Install the MSP Interface Tips
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Set Defaults and Options
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Set Defaults and Options Continued
Tips
– At a minimum, you must set the File – Project
Option defaults at the application level
– Additionally, you will want to check and modify
these settings on the individual projects that
were created before you adjusted these File –
Project Option defaults
– These projects would have inherited the former
default settings
– Application Level Defaults allow all new projects
to inherit the default settings.
– Setting should also be reset for Legacy projects
that are being brought into CA Clarity PPM
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Identify Field Mappings
Custom Views and Creating a Project
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Custom Views Gantt Chart View
Add the Key Task Column
Add the Charge Code Column
– Only if you let Users select
Task Usage View
actual work
remaining
Custom View
Combined View
Gantt Chart on the top
Task Usage on bottom
Modify Existing Views to Create Custom Views
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Create Projects – RULE OF THUMB
Anything on the Properties Tab and Team Tab
– Enter/Edit/Update in CA Clarity
Anything on the Tasks Tab
– Enter/Edit/Update in MS Project
Anything on the Tasks Tab
Enter/Edit/Update in MS Project
Resources and MS Project
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Resources and MS Project
Staff a Plan – Should ALWAYS be done in CA Clarity
– Resource Allocation button
Holistic View of Availability
Resource Planning Views
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The Four (4) A’s
Availability
Allocation
Assignment
Actuals
Holistic View of Availability and Allocation
Resource Planning Views
Work Breakdown Structure
There are often misunderstandings about the meanings
of the terms “duration” and “work”
A task has duration amount and work amount,
which may not always be equivalent values
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Define Work, Units and Duration
For a Fixed Units task, Microsoft Project recalculates Duration when you overwrite the Fixed Units value
For a Fixed Duration task, Microsoft Project recalculates Work when you overwrite the Fixed Duration value
For a Fixed Work task, Microsoft Project recalculates Duration when you overwrite the Fixed Work value
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Identify Task Management Guidelines Terminology Differences Between CA Clarity PPM and Microsoft Project
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Determine the Schedule
Some of the common elements of
Project Management get a bit more
complicated when using CA Clarity and
Microsoft Project together
Status = Complete
– Microsoft Project
Zero out remaining work for all
resource assignments
– CA Clarity
Zero-out the Estimate to Complete
value, select ‘Completed’ from the
drop-down in the ‘Status’ field
Remaining Work & Pending Estimate To
Complete
– Entry Precedence
– Work Contour
– Summary Tasks
– Blank Task Names
Control the Project
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Baseline the Project
A Baseline will create a point-in-time capture of your project plan that you
can refer to, and measure against
– Baselines can include either the full or partial project WBS
Update to existing baselines
– Full baseline
– Update partial (tasks) baseline
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Baseline the Project
CA Clarity PPM can only have one Baseline active, but Microsoft Project can view several at a time
Microsoft Project can store 11 baselines, while CA Clarity PPM can store as many as you need
– If there are more than 11 project baselines stored in CA Clarity PPM, the latest 11 will download to Microsoft Project
when you open the project
CA Clarity PPM has security rights associated with creating and modifying baselines
– you will still be able to run the baseline functionality in Microsoft Project, but the data will not be saved to CA Clarity
PPM
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Define Track Mode Settings This setting permits or restricts a
specific project from accepting
actuals from a timesheet and/or
permits the project manager to
enter actuals directly into the
project plan
The Track Mode is found in two
locations:
– Project level: Properties >
Schedule
– Resource level: Properties
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Define Track Mode Settings
The following chart contains rules surrounding the capture of actuals using CA Clarity PPM Timesheets in conjunction with Microsoft Project
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Tips Resources can be open for time entry at the resource, project and project assignment
level. If a resource is not open for time entry in all three places, they are not able to use
CA Clarity PPM timesheets.
Time periods should be created and status (open or closed) should be managed by an
application administrator
Timesheets are submitted, approved and posted in CA Clarity PPM Timesheets – only
posted timesheets appear as actuals
– Actuals on Timesheets, which have been saved but not yet posted, will appear as Pending Actuals
in Microsoft Project. These can be viewed using MSP mapping
– Do not update Actuals in Microsoft Project if the Track Mode is Clarity or Other
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Apply Actuals
Be Vigilant on Timesheets – When work begins on the project, actuals will begin to be recorded against the
plan
– Impress upon your team members to track their time accurately and on the appropriate day or your plan‘s finish date may unnecessarily be delayed
Tasks not reported on a time sheet may change due to the posting of the assigned resource‘s time sheet. CA Clarity PPM assumes that a person's time sheet is a complete accounting of the project work they completed that week. If a scheduled task did not appear on the time sheet, it implies no work was completed by the resource on that task, and must be rescheduled for the following week or beyond
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Pending Actuals
There are three possible values you may see: – ‘0’ indicates that you are looking at a Summary task
– ‘-1’ indicates that there are no Pending Actuals entered on the timesheet as of that day
– A value other than ‘0’ or ‘-1’ indicates that the value you see is the team member’s cumulative Pending Actuals up through that day in that time period
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Pending Estimates
There are three possible values you may see: – ‘0’ indicates that you are looking at a Summary task
– ‘-1’ indicates that a Pending Estimate has not been entered for the task
– A value other than ‘0’ or ‘-1’ indicates that the team member has entered a Pending Estimate to identify a revision to the remaining estimate for the task
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Apply Actuals
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% Work Complete vs % Complete
% Work Complete
– % Work Complete is set to 100% automatically if
Microsoft Project detects the task is complete via
calculations.
Once the Remaining Work has been reduced to
zero, either manually or by the actuals that
have been booked, the system sets the % Work
Complete to 100%.
It is calculated based on Actuals and Remaining
Work
% Complete
– % Complete set by the Project Manager’s actions.
– It is set to 100% when the Project Manager says the
task is complete by manually changing the %.
– CA Clarity PPM automatically sets the value to 1% for
Started Tasks and the Project Manager sets it to 100%
when task is completed.
– It is not calculated based on Actuals
Summary task % Complete can be calculated by running
the Update % Complete Job
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