Re: MS Project: Allow for employee termination

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Thanks. That clarifies that I'm trying to use the program for more than it
was designed to do. I'll work around this and figure out how to get all I
can out of the program.


"Jan De Messemaeker" wrote:

Hi,

Still, this is how it is generally done.
But before leveling, people will look at the most spectacular
overallocations and mayeb replac resources already.
HTH

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Jan De Messemaeker, Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
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"Brett" <Brett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schreef in bericht
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Fantastic - I had tried selecting task properties, but the multiple
resources
didn't show up. Your method works great!
I'm curious, though, about how most people use leveling. I have four
people
equally capable of doing a large number of tasks. I'd like to use MS
Project
to optimally schedule people to tasks so that the project completes in the
shortest time possible. The way I've been doing that is to assign all
four
people to the tasks. MS Project will then show me the completion date for
the project. Obviously, this creates problems with actually allocating
the
tasks to each person. Would most people simply start assigning a single
resource to each task and try and optimize the assignments? This would
result in a non-optimal solution, possibly taking much longer than if the
assignments had been optimally given.

"Jan De Messemaeker" wrote:

Hi Brett,

First let me solve your practical problem.
Select all tasks, then cklick the assign recources button on the toolbar
Select the leaving resource, then click remove.
(Or simply delete the resoruc form the resource ***)

Your way of using leveling is really highly original but if it works why
not?
I'll give this further thought.
The way most people use leveling is by assigning the required
resource(s) to
each task, then let leveling push forward the tasks that create
overallocation.

Hope this helps,


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Jan De Messemaeker, Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
http://users.online.be/prom-ade/
For FAQs: http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm
"Brett" <Brett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schreef in bericht
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It sounds like I don't know what leveling is for. I use MS Project to
help
me schedule the work for all tasks in a project. I do this by
entering
the
tasks and the work required for each t ask. I then assign all of my
available resources to each task and use the leveling feature to allow
MS
Project to assign the resources as required to the tasks. This lets
me
figure out what the end date of the project is.
My guess, based on the response, is that this is not a valid thing to
do.

However, a month after I performed the above entry, one of the
employees
(that was now assigned to a number of tasks) turned in his
resignation.
How
do I get him removed from all of his assignments? Do I have to go
through
every task and remove him manually? Why can I not just tell MS
Project
that
he is unavailable on his resignation date? Is there some tutorial on
how
MS
project does leveling, taking into account availability dates?

Thanks.

"Jan De Messemaeker" wrote:

Hi Brett,

Please note that this would mean a new product since the principle
of
your
question implies a completely new approach to leveling: now it NEVER
changes
assignment units, not for temporary workforce but neither for any
other
circumstance.
HTH

--
Jan De Messemaeker, Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
http://users.online.be/prom-ade/
For FAQs: http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm
"Brett" <Brett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schreef in bericht
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After allocating all resources for the project and allow microsoft
to
allocate evenly over all tasks, an employee submits his/her
resignation.
It
would be nice if MS Project would allow the changing of the
Resource
Availability dates to reflect this fact and then allow for
releveling
to
parcel the work to the other resources in the group. However,
when
currently
doing this, MS Project comes up with overallocations for the
resource
that
left.

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