Re: Resource Allocation Issue

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From: Rod Gill (rodsngtrap_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/19/04 

Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 09:54:59 +1300

Hi,

Network Services 250hrs is the total work you have available, not the units.
Units is the ration of work to duration and effectively denotes the hours
per day a resource is available. 100% is therefore 8h per day maximum
availability. at 8h/day, 250h is going to take around 31 working days to
complete. 31d is the Duration.

If you have 5 people to do the Network Services work, then set the Max units
to 500%. This equates to 40h/day. 

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"verossa" <verossa@hotmailnospam.com> wrote in message
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> Hi All
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> I am using MS Project 2000 to manage an IT implementation.
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> On the Resource ***, MS Project identifies resources / max. units as
> either a % or a unit.  I understand that one unit or 100% denotes one
"man".
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> On my project I have the following information:
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> Network Services                       250hrs
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> IIS                                           50hrs
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> Infrastructure                            48hrs
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> User Acceptance Test                  50hrs
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> Build                                        23hrs
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> Scenario: Network Services will undertake 250hrs of work across the life
of
> the project.  Network Services is the resource, and 250hrs is the
max.unit.
> Network Services could be a team of 2, 4, 7 specialists - do not have
> visibility of this.
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> At present when I am using the resource usage to populate the resource
hours
> I am activating all kinds of "reds" in my resource ***.  I've
ascertained
> this is because of the amount of max. units but why can't I just include
the
> total hrs per department (250hr) in my max. units?
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> Is there a method of doing this or am I missing something?  What is the
best
> method in project to handle the above scenario?  I would be grateful for
any
> guidance or a resource to explain this.
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> TIA - Verossa
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