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Chat Transcript of Simplilearn Virtual class I on MS Project

 Below is the transcript of the virtual class-I on Project Scheduling using MS Project on 12th November, 2009 .

Krishna was the instructor of the session

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arun nampoothiri: Can different calenders be used in one project?

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Srinivasan: Yes. We can use different calendars for different resources

arun nampoothiri: e.g engg., procurement and construction

Srinivasan: working from different locatoins

arun nampoothiri: ok

arun nampoothiri: WBS

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Chakrapani: sorry for being late… was stuck in a meeting

Chakrapani: i hope i have not missed a lot

arun nampoothiri: can different type of resources be assigned to one activity – eg. manpower, machineries & materials ?

Chakrapani: great

Attendee10: yes

arun nampoothiri: ok

arun nampoothiri: yes

arun nampoothiri: I understand. I am from engineering & construction background in petrochemicals & refineries

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arun nampoothiri: After scheduling, can we extract a report which can show a summary of the project – eg. total no. of activities, critical activities, open ended activities etc.

arun nampoothiri: ok

Attendee16: if an approved baseline has to be changed then? do we re baeline it track with latest one

Attendee16: ok. i understand FIRST baseline and that can keep changing. am i right?

Attendee16: ok

Attendee16: ok

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Attendee10: i agree with you

Attendee16: thank you

Attendee16: click full screen…

Attendee16: sure

Attendee10: u can share your desktop

Sougat Mitra: No

Attendee10: yes

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Chakrapani: yes

Sathya: no, server unreachable error be shown

Attendee16: yes

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Abid: i can also see

arun nampoothiri: yes, visible

Sathya: now I can

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Attendee42: i can see the screen – but its intermittant, can you please move slow,its taking time to refresh

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Sathya: audio is gone

Chakrapani: sathya relogin

Chakrapani: no

Senthil: Yes

Srinivasan: we are able to hear you.

Chakrapani: i can hear

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Attendee10: ur screens are taking time to reload

Attendee10: cant see ur msproject

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Sampath: proj name also mentioned as task ?

Attendee10: we can also right click on left pane and select indent

Srinivasan: Krish, you may want to keep the task bar visible

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Sampath: ok thx

Attendee10: ok

Srinivasan: Yes

Sampath: yes

Attendee10: yups

Jagadish: yeah thanks

Chakrapani: Krishna… under the project menu do need to define the project start date

Chakrapani: ok

Jagadish: can u please repeat details about fixed date

Jagadish: fixed duration

Jagadish: oh ok – i got it, thanks

Attendee10: we can also manage the total efforts for the project.

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Srinivasan: We need the duration column as it would tell us the duration when we use more than one resource for the same activity .

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Srinivasan: Okay

Srinivasan: Thanks

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Srinivasan: Yes

Jagadish: yeah

Sampath: yes

Abid: yes

Attendee10: yups

Arun Nampoothiri: yes

Chakrapani: yes

Attendee16: can you show the spreadsheet again?

Attendee16: pls explain activity 9s columns

Attendee16: thank u

Attendee16: what is 2ss nd 3ss?

Attendee16: okok

Attendee16: one sec

Sougat Mitra: No sound

Attendee16: how come 9 depends on 8?

Attendee10: got that

Attendee16: ok

Srinivasan: Yes

Chakrapani: what is the time each resource is spending on the activity

Attendee16: go ahead

Jagadish: yeah please proceed

Sampath: yes

Sathya: yes

Attendee10: yes

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Chakrapani: not that… some of the resources are required only say for and hr a day

Chakrapani: in that case thre is always change to the schedule

Chakrapani: ok

Attendee10: ceate an activity and assign 1 hr per day

Attendee10: and we want to track efforts spent in those meetings

Attendee10: k

Ajay Khullar: good job

Ajay Khullar: yups

Attendee16: clear now

Ajay Khullar: clear now

Arun Nampoothiri: any provision for cost

Ajay Khullar: can you please explain it again?

Srinivasan: In the resource sheet, you can provide the cost.

Srinivasan: There is a standard rate and overtime rate.

Chakrapani: now on the screen you have baseline start and start

Chakrapani: what does this start indicate

Chakrapani: ok

Chakrapani: is this start the actual start

Srinivasan: You were planning to explain the Lag time

Chakrapani: so basically there are 3 start dates

Srinivasan: Yes.

Chakrapani: baseline, start and actual

Ajay Khullar: yes

Jagadish: hey krish, this is really a wonderful session.Please excuse me I go to leave for a meeting

Chakrapani: now my dates are not matching with yours

Chakrapani: i am on ms proj

Jagadish: thanks krish

Arun Nampoothiri: is there any limit for no. of activities?

Chakrapani: sure

Sampath: thx krish . u guys doing a good job

Srinivasan: Thanks Krish.

Arun Nampoothiri: ok

Chakrapani: sure thanks

Senthil: Thanks a lot

Attendee16: thank you very much

Arun Nampoothiri: thanks

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Chakrapani: krish this was a wonderful session

Sathya: thanks a lot Krish, awesome session

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Srinivasan: Thanks Krish.

Attendee16: i sec

Srinivasan: Nice session..

Chakrapani: thanks a lot

Arun Nampoothiri: really useful

Abid: thank you for this session

Yoav Reshef: Thank you

Yoav Reshef: Thank you

Chakrapani: will message you on the discussion forum for any doubts

Attendee16: thank you

Arun Nampoothiri: nice one

Chakrapani: thanks once again

Chakrapani: have a nice day ahead

Attendee16: see u all in next session

Attendee16: thanks again, bye

Chakrapani: sure

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