Re: Resource Leveling

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Thanks again for your response Steve. In answers to your questions:

Yes - to run levelling - I go to Tools / Level Resources / Level Now

The "level only within available slack" is turned off - althought to be
honest - I;m not entirely sure what the does / does not do - where do you
define your avaialble slack and how does this work?

I haven't hard coded any dates at all in the Plan - simply inserted tasks,
work effort, priotity and let Project schedule all tasks.

Yes the Project is in flight - so some of the task have been completed - but
none partially they are either 100% or 0% complete

With regards to Joe's working availability - I HAVE NOT touched his Project
Calandar (i.e. Tools / Change Working Time) - Instead I have double clicked
him in the View / Resource Sheet - and under Resource Availability inserted
From 02/11/2009 (because that's the Monday) To 31/12 /2009. My interpretation
is that MS Project would assume that he's not available any time before or
after these dates.

Hope that provides you with enough info to help provide some more guidance.

Regards
Tushar





"Steve House" wrote:

I know you're looking at resource leveling but are you doing it by
explicitly running the Resource Leveling tool in the Tools menu? Project
doesn't redistribute the work until you tell it to do it. If you have run
it, was the checkbox "level only within available slack" turned off? Have
you entered any start or finish dates manually or otherwise set any
constraints on the tasks, especially any MFNLT constraints, that might
prevent their being moved? Has any actual work or progress information been
entered?

Whenb you said you made Joe available in Nov and Dec, how did you do that,
or rather how did you make him unavailable before Nov and after Dec?
--
Steve House
MS Project Trainer & Consultant




"Tush Patel" <TushPatel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks Steve - although perhaps I haven't articulated the question
properly.
I've added Joe to the resource sheet and made him available for November
and
December. I've then allocated Jo to a number of individual tasks (at 100%)
that all start at the Project Start and those tasks sum to 2 months of
work-effort in total. I would then expect Resource levelling to schedule
his
tasks throughout November and December, based on dependencies, priorities
and
any other task constraints. Instead - it allocates all tasks in November -
showing that Joe is 200% allocated in November and 0% in December. The
Plan's
quite big - maybe 1000 lines in length. I've levelled 100's of times
before -
so don't think I've fundemantally structure the plan incorrectly. Just
wondered whether you had any clues as to why it was overallocating Joe in
November (200%) where we had spare capacity in December?

"Steve House" wrote:

Project doesn't assign resource allocations, you do. And leveling
doesn't
change the assignment levels once you have set them. If a resource has
been
assigned to a task in excess of his maximum level, it's up to you to
manually correct it. Resource Joe has a maximum of 100%. If you have
him
assigned at a total of 200% by virtue of being assigned to both Task A @
100% and Task B @ 100%, both tasks scheduled at the same time, leveling
will
take one of them and move it out so it doesn't start until the other one
is
finished, but that's all it does. If Joe is 200% ON A SINGLE TASK,
leveling
will do nothing to fix it. If you assign him to a task @ 100% and then
later reduce his maximum availability to 50%, once again all that happens
is
his name turns red; leveling does nothing to fix it because it never
changes
assignment levels on individual tasks.
--
Steve House
MS Project Trainer & Consultant


"Tush Patel" <Tush Patel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have adjusted a resource's availablity to be 100% available in the
months
of Nov and Dec (for instance) - yet Levelling is scheduling them for
200%
over Nov instead of 100% over both Nov and Dec. I'm leveling Day by
Day -
but
if I change this to Week by Week or Month by Month - it seems to
resolve
the
problem.

Anyone experienced this before / have any clues - it's an absolute road
block for me right now. Any views help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks




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