Re: Planning for Vacation / Holiday time

metimmee wrote:
What is the best way to incorporate vacation time within a project? I
have 5 members of a team that are allowed to take their vacation at
any time during the project, providing the manning doesnt drop below 2
personnel. Initially I added a contingency period to the end of the
project which took into account unallocated vacation. If a slip for a
project phase occured due to absence, I would take that time from the
contingency period, keeping delivery at a constant date.

Management arent happy with this solution. Any advice on how I should
incorporate vacation time?

Thanks.


There isn't really any alternative but to use contingency until you know specific dates. How can you plan more accurately when the only information that you have is that somebody will/may take time off sometime between now and the project end?

Once you know the dates, you can adjust the working time for individual resources and then plan around that. If you have an administrative project for non working time, you could add leave to that.
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