thinking 'critical task' vs real 'critical task' in MPP

Q: I have a very important task that my boss thinks is critical to the project outcome, and it is not showing up as red. How can I make it critical?
The fact that your boss believes the task is critical does not mean that it is a Critical task in the schedule, based on Total Slack (TS). A "Program-Critical" task is different from a "CPM-Critical" task. If your workflow logic is correct, then that program-critical task may have slack, and therefore not found on the critical path.
If the boss believes the task to be a program-critical task, find out what the risks are that may cause it to be Program-Critical. Assess a duration relative to that level of risk and add a "Risk Contingency" task, within that logic-flow, that may prove to be greater than or equal to the difference between the task TS and Critical Path (CP) TS. In other words, if the program-critical task has a TS of 5d and the CP TS is 0d then add a risk-contingency task of five or more days. This will cause that logic-path to become red.
-- Angelo Arcoleo, PMPMaster Scheduler, ITT Space Systems Division
Extracted from MPug Site

MS Project Tip of the Day

"If you consolidate projects that contain resources with the same name, and you want to eliminate duplicate resource names, clear the Link to Project check box. The first instance of a resource name and its resource information, such as pay rates and resource calendars, will overwrite the second and subsequent instances. Because the subprojects are not linked to their source files, you cannot update the original project file with any changes made to the subproject in the master project.

-Microsoft

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Resources assignment rampup Week on Week - report

What about the Reports > Reports > Workload > Resource Usage report?Does that get you what you need, or is your issue that you don't want hours,but instead want to report on FTEs? If the latter, you'd be best off exportingas a PivotTable to Excel and doing the math there - or using a Visual Report(if you're in 2007).- Andrew LavinskyBlog: http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/epm>
Activity or (No. of resources)>
Task Name, Week -1, Week-2
A 22 41
B 3 5
C
D 7 21
E 9
etc......
Excerpted from thecodecage site: http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/project-formatting/202174-resources-assignment-rampup-week-week-report.html

Use '?' for an estimated tasks

Use the symbol '?' after a duration (4d?) to denote the forecasted task duration is an estimate.