Re: Proper Leveling Techniques

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From: Gerard Ducouret (gerard.ducouret_at_wanadooNOSPAM.fr)
Date: 12/14/04 

Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:55:26 +0100

Hello Bryan,
You are right: dependencies such as FS or SS, formalize only technical
requirements. Not resource load management.
Personally, I would use the Manual leveling otherwise the Gantt chart will
be wavy and you'll get sea-sick.
You can alter the leveling algorithm with the Priority field (value from
mini = 1 to maxi = 1000) in the task information dialog box.
As previously said, you can undertake strictly manual leveling in several
views such as the Resource Usage, but it may turn out to be cumbersome.

Gérard Ducouret

"Bryan Andrews" <bandrews@trendinfluence.com> a écrit dans le message de
news:OD2eoQd4EHA.2016@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> To work from an earlier example:
>
> We have 10 illustrations to create and we have them broken out
> into separate tasks. These should not be assigned finish to start because
> theoretically i can assign them to 10 different designers which would
allow
> me to complete them in an hour -- and there is nothing about the first
> illustration that must be completed before i can start the second
> illustration.
>
> I happen to have 1 designer available so i will assign him to all.
>
> Since these are all set to start at the same time, the second i assign the
> second task (and third and forth, etc) the resource is overallocated. What
> is the preferred leveling method for people. I understand that you can
click
> Level or have Automatic Leveling, but is this what most people use? Or do
> people jsut adjust schedules in resource usage as suggested earlier?
>
> If adjusting the schedule is one way, how do you effectively adjust task
> schedules for without creating constraints on the tasks? Which view is
> actually used to effectively achieve this?
>
> If you are manually leveling, are you just adjusting delays? Is there a
more
> intuitive or graphical way to do this? I would think there would be an
easy
> way to control priorities as well by dragging tasks around...
>
> Thanks for any thoughts.
>
>