Re: best way to assign resources

From: Dale Howard [MVP] ("Dale)
Date: 05/12/04 

Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 08:20:55 -0600

Lynne --

It sounds like you need to set the Task Type for all tasks in your project
to Fixed Work. When you do so, you can enter the Work and Duration, and
Microsoft Project will calculate the Units value automatically. If you
later change the Duration of a task, once again Project will recalculate the
Units. Hope this helps. 

-- 
Dale A. Howard [MVP]
Enterprise Project Trainer/Consultant
http://www.msprojectexperts.com
"We wrote the book on Project Server"
"lynne baker" <lynnebkr@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1ca090a2.0405120316.52cc0713@posting.google.com...
> Hi all
> Project Pro 2002
> Server 2002
> PWA
>
> I'm sure this is such a basic issue, but some guidance from the
> experts would be very much appreciated.
> I have almost 300 tasks and about 8 resources.
> I would like to allocate tasks to these resources such that the
> application calculates what the percentage allocation is.
> At the moment we're doing it like this
> Create a task
> Allocate a resource
> Decide what percentage of the resource's time it might take
> decide how long it's going to take and enter it into duration
> decide how many hours effort is going to be required and enter it into
> work.
>
> Something tells me one of those steps is superfluous...
>
> And my resources are all horribly overallocated too!
>
> Ideally, what I'd like to do is keep the work the same, alter the
> duration to accommodate the amount of work, and calculate the
> percentage allocation automatically.
> Again, something tells me I'm asking for the moon!
>
> Many thanks for your help!

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