Re: Fully Allocate a Resource

You're welcome Vic. Glad to have helped and thanks for the
feedback.
Julie
"Vic" <Vic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks. I can try to scale it back to day by day. I went minute
by minute
to resolve some overallocation flags.

Yeah, I know the purpose of the leveling engine, but I do expect
Project to
optimize people's days to a large extent. I can't tell you why
the Work
Contour and prioritization worked, I was hoping you could :). But
it did
work. Maybe it was the prioritization.

I did try to manual schedule planned work, but that caused other
problems (I
can't remember what they were now - probably over allocation based
on what
you said). I can try that again and keep an eye on that.

Thanks for your help. And you too Julie :)

--
Vic


"Dave" wrote:

You can make project display the start time by going to tools,
options
and selecting the view tab. In the date format you can opt to
show or
hide the time.

As a general observation, do you actually have to track what your
resources are doing minute by minute? That's a very fine level
of
granularity. If you are only interested in ensuring that they
get a
number of activities done in a day then I would suggest
day-by-day
levelling or even week-by-week levelling might be more
appropriate
although your particular circumstances may dictate otherwise.

I don't understand how what you have done has resolved the
problem and
wonder whether you are expecting too much from the levelling
engine.

Levelling is not an optimisation tool in that it won't adjust the
work
to fill the gaps in a resource's working day. It actually does
something closer to the opposite - it simply delays tasks until
there
are no overallocations in the resource's schedule.

If, after levelling, a resource is not working sufficiently many
hours
in a day then you need to manually adjust the length of that task
(and
possibly level again - you may find it useful to fix those
elements of
the plan you are happy with by setting their priority to 1000).

You shouldn't have to adjust the contour and I wouldn't worry
about it.
By definition, unless the resource works exactly the same
number of
hours every day on a task then it is contoured. Instead, if I
wasn't
happy with the hours that a resource had been scheduled to work
then I
would alter that either by directly entering the planned hours or
by
adjusting the length of the task, although when doing this you
need to
consider the totality of hours worked by the resource across all
the
tasks occurring on that day.

Vic wrote:
Hi Julie,

On the leveling I didn't allow splitting of a task. And I'm
not sure how to
check the time of a task starting. Please let me know on that
just out of
curiousity. But I don't believe that is it because it's many
days and many
tasks that it happens.

I was able to resolve the problem by changing the Work Contour
and
prioritizing some tasks. When I entered Actual Work it changed
the Work
Contour from "Flat" to "Contour" - is that normal? So I
changed them back to
Flat and in addition to the prioritization that seemed to start
scheduling
the work so they had an 8 hour day (or at least close to it in
some cases).

Hope that makes sense. While it seems to be corrected, I would
still be
curious to know why it does that and if there's a better way to
handle the
situation. Your help is appreciated.





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