Re: Under utilisd resources

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Just commenting FYI others reading the thread. Project doesn't monitor or identify under-usage at all. The reason is that the project's universe is circumscribed and by no means the totality of the activities of the firm. If Joe works 8 hours on Monday yet you have chosen only to assign him in the project for 4, Project assumes you had a reason for that decision and he is already committed for the other hours to some undefined something outside the universe that is known by MS Project. Otherwise you'd have assigned him 100% from the start, right, since the over-riding objective is get the project done asap? Staffing decisions should always made by people, never the software (which is why the out-of-the-box task type is fixed units, btw). If you want to insure the resources are always fully utilized, never assign them at anything except 100%.

I'm curious why your client wants to monitor the contractor's resources to make sure they're utilized properly. Isn't that part of the contractor's business organization that doesn't really affect your client at all. The contractor has agreed to deliver X product by Y date for Z cost. How he goes about it is up to him - how he organizes his workers to get the job done is essentially a black box as far as the client who hired him is concerned, as long as the contractor delivers on-time.
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"DavidC" <DavidC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:FF390DAD-8B7E-46B1-AE5F-AA4761673CBD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Thanks for that confirmation.  Where this arose was a situation where a
client is using a project plan to monitor a contractor's resources on site
and effectively 'nit pick' where a resource is not shown as being 100%
utilised on any particular day.

Personally I find that sad that even today clients are being so penny
pinching but we have to learn to live with it and find ways around it. Hence
the reason why the people I was dealing with wanted to identify on the plan
that where a resource was not being used for a part or whole of a day then
they were still being used in a constructive manner.

Thanks again though for your comments.

regards

DavidC

"Rod Gill" wrote:

Hi,

No. Unless you want to cost the cleaning task, I wouldn't worry about it.
Just assume that unassigned hours are spent on support tasks such as
cleaning.

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"DavidC" <DavidC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:6E2ECA02-E0D4-4706-A63F-B28650E97A8C@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi,
>
> Have a situation where in a project there are times when a resource is > not
> being fully utilised and I want them to be allocated to a general task > of
> say
> cleaning. Can Project assign resources to that task automatically > during
> times when they are not allocated to other tasks?




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