Re: Subverting scheduling detail - plan & track by quarter
- From: "Mike Glen" <glenATmvps.org>
- Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 09:05:57 +0100
Hi Dan,
Glad you've found what you want. You could also level with a month-by-month
granularity which could go part way to what you want.
Thanks for your kind words on my series in TechTrax :) I hope you have
rated them for me!
Mike Glen
Project MVP
Dan_W wrote:
> Thanks Mike - I figured out that the main thing I needed to do was
> turn the automatic leveling off and change the time scale to Quarters
> & Quarters). I can then set the start date for the beginning of a
> quarter then allocate days of work and view the tally by quarter with
> the Resource Usage table. I ignore the fact that the top row (the
> sum) of the Resource Usage table is red (it thinks I'm double or
> triple booked each day) and instead just compare the total # days
> quarter to the # of days that I know are available for each resource.
>
> Also - I wanted to mention how tremendously helpful your TechTrax
> articles have been to me as I've been teaching myself Project - the
> best guidance series I've found through various web searches. Thanks!
>
> "Mike Glen" wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Dan,
>>
>> Welcome to the Microsoft Project newsgroup :-)
>>
>> Have you had a look at the Resource Graph view? This should give
>> you what you want. If you want to aggregate more than one resource,
>> see FAQ Item:
>> 38. Combined Resource Graph
>>
>> FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be
>> seen at this web address: http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm
>>
>> Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on:-)
>>
>> Mike Glen
>> Project MVP
>>
>> Dan_W wrote:
>>> I have used Microsoft Project to create a detailed list of tasks,
>>> assigned resources to all tasks and entered work days per resource
>>> per task. The resources working on this project have variable and
>>> unpredictable schedules that make it impossible to schedule their
>>> work on specific calendar days. Instead, I want to schedule work in
>>> terms of requested task-work-days per quarter (ideally bi-monthly
>>> but this does not appear to be an available unit) then evaluate
>>> whether we have sufficient resources to accomplish the work (e.g.,
>>> Resource A has 60 days/quarter available but is being asked to
>>> contribute to 10 tasks totaling 80 days in Qtr 1). I'm only
>>> interested in person-work-days per quarter (that's "Work" days and
>>> NOT "Duration" days) and specific start & end dates within a
>>> quarter are meaningless. My needs are pretty simple but I cannot
>>> figure out an approach in Project to plan by quarter and determine
>>> if we are over or under resourced by quarter.
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