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  • 1.  Schedule auditor

    Posted Nov 04, 2014 08:11 PM


  • 2.  Re: Schedule auditor

    Posted Nov 05, 2014 06:32 AM

    OOTB there is not and I have not heard of such being available from a third party.

    Man of the things look such that could be developed to display in a portlet in Clarity.



  • 3.  Re: Schedule auditor

    Posted Nov 05, 2014 08:47 AM

    Many 3rd party partners are providing add-ons to MS Proj. to make verification of schedule quality less labor intensive.  before we fully engage WB wanted to know if there were equivalent (MS Proj) add-on capabilities.  So, switching gears, has anyone developed a front end scheduling wizard?  Wizard would ask questions that assist it in laying out the tasks.

     

    Thanks



  • 4.  Re: Schedule auditor

    Posted Nov 05, 2014 10:57 AM

    Author used to do that, but it was dropped in Niku 6 or Niku 7. (Clarity is now in version 14)



  • 5.  Re: Schedule auditor

    Posted Nov 05, 2014 03:48 PM

    About Authoring

    A methodologyis a set of repeatable processes and instructionsfor efficiently

    and systematically achieving a goal. It provides you with a standard sequence

    of steps that are required toplan and complete projects.

    With Author, you can record your organization’s best business practices in a

    custom methodology. After the methodology is created or authored, project

    planners and estimators use it to plan new projects. A well-designed

    methodology can speed up project planning, provide repeatable processes, and

    set up standards across the entire organization.

    When you author a methodology, you create profile pages with questions, or

    factors, designed to prompt the project planner for specific information. The

    answers the planner providesduring profiling can result in Work Breakdown

    Structure (WBS) recommendations and project size adjustments, as well as

    contribute to estimating formula calculations. For planning and estimating

    subsequent projects, the information gathered in the profile pages is

    invaluable. You can use this information to locate projects with similar

    attributes in the repository, and then use these projects as a basis for WBS

    planning or estimating.

    You can also author the WBS hierarchies, roles, dependencies, and estimating

    cases your organization uses. This provides project planners and estimators

    with libraries of objects from which they can select.

    Getting Started

    About Authoring

    Using Author with Clarity, 1e 14

    Author provides a default methodologies: Risk method, Status method, HR Sample

    method, HRSampleKI method, which may simplify the authoring process for you. If

    it meets your organization’s requirements, you do not need to create your own

    methodology; you can customize any Authormethod or use it as is. For more

    information about the Author methods, see “Using a Clarity Method”on 21.

    The people best suited toauthor an organization’s methodology are those most

    familiar with previous, successful project plans. Some organizations have a

    dedicated methodologist onstaff devoted to authoring best practices.

    In other organizations, the person who authors a methodology is the person most

    interested in improving organizational practices. In either case, the methodology

    author should have:

    „ thorough knowledge of the organization’s business practices

    „ familiarity with successful projects the organization has completed

    „ knowledge of factors that affect project plan decisions

    „ basic knowledge of project management principles

    „ thorough knowledge of the components involved in building a successful plan,

    including WBS structures, deliverables, roles, estimates

    „ some experience with a project scheduling tool, such as Workbench or

    Microsoft Project

    The information you need to gather beforeauthoring a methodology is detailed in

    the section “Before You Create the Methodology”on 16.

     

    That is no longer supported.



  • 6.  Re: Schedule auditor

    Posted Nov 05, 2014 04:20 PM

    Where can I get a download of author?

     

    Thanks



  • 7.  Re: Schedule auditor

    Posted Nov 05, 2014 04:27 PM

    You can't.

    First it was a stand alone product.

    Then it was integrated.

    When it was dropped the methodologies created were support for a while and then dropped I think in r8.

     

    Talk to your CA account manger.or a partner who has been there more than ten years.



  • 8.  Re: Schedule auditor

    Posted Nov 08, 2014 03:34 AM

    I am starting to recall parts of it.

    When the author was dropped there was a write up what could be used instead.

    Your CA account manager might be able to find that.

    The author created these methodologies/methods which are no longer supported.

    What you can do you can create a number of templates eg for large and small projects in IT or HR or where your needs are.

    When you create a project from a template you can scale it.

    Then you can copy tasks from another project (eg template)

    Once you have your WBS you can use Estimating to further scale it.

    See

    Delete all ETC in all tasks in order



  • 9.  Re: Schedule auditor

    Posted Nov 09, 2014 01:48 PM

    Clarity 7.5 Release Notes  Page 3

    Author

    In Clarity 7.0 the feature of planning from a template was introduced. This feature provided

    much of the utility of Author and the corresponding project manager functionality in the browser.

    With Clarity 7.5, the remaining functionality that was previously part of the Author module, as

    well as some capabilities from a former product known as Niku Planner, has been subsumed in

    the Project Manager module. This functionality includes:

    – Task-by-task arithmetic estimating rules

    – Top-down and bottom-up estimating added as interactive, process-driven feature

    – Dynamic sub-pages (when optional conditions are met) to replace the profiling wizard

    – Task Planning Library to browse a template to add specific tasks (or phases)

    Clarity provides customers a means to migrate their Author methods to this new functionality

    and customers are encouraged to do so. All activeAuthor methods will be deactivated during

    the upgrade to Clarity 7.5 but customers can reactivate them if they plan to continue to use the

    current Author functionality at least initially and migrate to the new functionality at a later date.