Re: Best way to account for departmental overhead?

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"Darrell" wrote:

Woo hooo... I have a method!! How do I send a link to this post to my Boss???
<grin>

"Jim Aksel" wrote:

As you can see, Darrell has come up with the "reciprocal solution" Both work
fine. The easy way to avoid Fred [80%] on the Gantt bars is to use the
Darrell Method.

If you want to use my method, place the resource name in the Initials Field
on the Resource Sheet. Then Format/Bar Styles and change the bar to show
Resource Initials rather than Resouce Name. So, you just fake it out.

You can let Barney work 40% of 80% by making his availability 0.8*0.4 =0.32
on the resource sheet
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"michael.franke@xxxxxx" wrote:

Hi Jim.

Thanks for your quick reply. Setting the max units does indeed get
the desired result. However, I'd like to treat 80% availablilty as
"full time" -- for display purposes at least. That is, the bar in the
Gantt chart next to Fred's task will say "Fred[80%]", which is
accurate but cumbersome.

Furthermore, there are some resources who I'd like to schedule at less
than "full time" -- like 50% -- that is, 50% of 80%, which is 40%.
Does that make sense? Essentially, I'd like to treat the 20% overhead
as a buffer, and hide it from the project except for calculations like
"5 days = 32 hours".

Also, if I'm doing things like this, do you suggest entering tasks in
terms of their "Work", or their "Duration"? Seems like it takes a
particular mind set, and being consistent would be key. Not to
mention the fact that if I enter a "Work" number, the "Duration" field
has a question mark (estimated) by default -- which doesn't make
sense, and makes me nervous.

Mike

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