Re: control time of day a resource works on a task

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Steve,
Thank you very much for confirming what i am coming to the conclusion of in
working with it this last month almost.

Working in this industry/field/company I am in now (new to me) but basically
the owner of the place needs to have a handle on how overloaded our CAD Techs
are compared to the PMs running the projects...So here I am in the middle as
an expeditor, scheduler, report maker, resource manager, time issues and
stuff person. With MS Project 2003 as my main tool.
I think I will be doing a lot of work vs people stuff in Excel where I was
working to start with here, and keep a master shedule for our deadlines, due
dates, tasks to do, etc. All engineering projects so many things to track.
Which I think it will do me a wonder.

But I honestly appreciate all the help I have gotten from you and everyone
else on these boards so far. Learning a lot very fast just reading other
peoples issues.

Tad Kelson
Project Scheduler



"Steve House" wrote:

I think you'll find that Project is simply not designed to do what
you're looking for. The role of a project manager is not to micromanage
the resource's workday. You be tell Joe "I need you to put in 2 hours
on waxing widgets and 3 hours on polishing fids next Tuesday" and trust
him to be able to decide how to schedule the details of his day.
Project is not a resource scheduling tool, it is a task scheduling tool.
Why should you be choosing what time the resource works on a task? What
drives the start of a task is not the manager's desire, it is A) the
task's predecssor(s) are finished; and B) the required resource is
available. Project can calculate both of those and schedule the task
appropriately without you have to provide any desired start date or time
for it. You don't tell it when you want the task to start ... it tells
you when the task is able to start.
--
Steve House
MS Project MVP
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs


"tadk" <tad dot kelson at gmail dot com.(donotspam)> wrote in message
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OK
I am thinking I am just missing some simple essential element in how
it all
works and once i figure it out I will be just fine.

But so far I am just shaking my head trying to get Project to do what
I want
it to do.
A few other times, I think you also, said wait for the 07 version and
wondering if I should go grab the beta and muck about with that.
Because right now it is not doing what i want it to do, which could
simply
be a function of it was not designed to do what i want and I am just
trying
to force it instead of work with it.

But thanks for all the replies you do, your comments to others are
helping
me as well

Tad Kelson
Project Scheduler

"Jan De Messemaeker" wrote:

Hi,

Not what it needs to be? You can level by the minute..
HTH

--
Jan De Messemaeker, Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
http://users.online.be/prom-ade/
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"tadk" <tad dot kelson at gmail dot com.(donotspam)> schreef in
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I understand totally why Alex needs that
I wish it would allow me to pull up in the resource pool show
resources
all
the actual projects i have assinge dto which day so i can adjust
the start
and stop dates, often times my bottle neck people need to work on
3 to 5
or
more different projects in a day and i am not finding the resource
allocation
in Project to be up to what i need it to be...

Tad

"Jan De Messemaeker" wrote:

Hi,

(I do not think one should do this. Project is there to
calculate
planned
times, not to just show what is entered. Still)
Tools, Options, View, Date Format, show one that has time of day
(f.i.
the
first one in the list)
Task Usage View
Find the tak and the assignment line
Double Click the asignment line
In assignment information fill in what you need.

Still, I'm shocked that somebody wants to do that..
Greetings,

--
Jan De Messemaeker, Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
http://users.online.be/prom-ade/
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I cannot figure out how to assign a resource to start work on
Task A
at
say
8AM and than task B at 11AM. I know how to say a resource
works 8
hours a
day
and how to assign it to multiple tasks in the same day, but I
cannot
figure
out how to choose the times of day he works on a given task
(or
finishes a
given task).









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