Re: beginner: difficulties with timeline

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From: Mike Glen (glenATmvps.org)
Date: 02/28/04

  • Next message: Fredo Vincentis: "Re: beginner: difficulties with timeline" 
    Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 12:14:55 -0000

    For the record, Freda had, for example, 3 resources on a task, one of whom
    had restricted working hours in a personal calendar. Thus the Duration
    expanded to allow for all 3 resources to finish the allotted Work. So the
    schedule, when levelled, pushed out the dates, made the Duration longer.

    Mike Glen
    MS Project MVP

    Mike Glen wrote:
    > Sure, Fredo, email me changing the AT to @ and I'll have a look
    > tomorrow.
    >
    > Mike Glen
    > MS Project MVP
    >
    > Fredo Vincentis wrote:
    >> I have got absolutely no time constraints on the project, except for
    >> the beginning of the first task, which is set to a certain date.
    >>
    >> Could I email the file to one of you to have a quick look over it?
    >> Just to see that I enetered everything I needed before levelling?
    >>
    >> "Jan De Messemaeker" <jandemes at prom hyphen ade dot be> wrote in
    >> message news:e#vHGKu#DHA.2180@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
    >>> Hi,
    >>>
    >>> I'm nearly sure that you assigned a task to a resource with limited
    >>> availability in time
    >>> Then when Leveling pushes a task for that resource to a time after
    >>> its latest availability, it keeps on pushing till the end of its
    >>> calendar (31/12/2049)
    >>>
    >>> Could you verify that?
    >>>
    >>> --
    >>> Jan De Messemaeker
    >>> Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
    >>> Project Management Consultancy
    >>> Prom+ade BVBA
    >>> 32-495-300 620
    >>> "Fredo Vincentis" <yahoda21@hotmailNoSpam.com> schreef in bericht
    >>> news:c1e09p$1190$1@otis.netspace.net.au...
    >>>> Hi guys, thanks for the welcome.
    >>>>
    >>>> I have read your article and others as well on levelling, but I
    >>>> still don't get it working. What I really want project to do is NOT
    >>>> to split any tasks (so I turned that setting off), and NOT to
    >>>> adjust individual assignments. If there is overallocation, I want
    >>>> the tasks to be pushed out longer until there is no more
    >>>> overallocation.
    >>>>
    >>>> If I uncheck all tick boxes and leave the other default settings,
    >>>> Project suddenly changes the duration of some of my tasks to 0hrs!?
    >>>> That's one way of getting rid of the overallocation, but not really
    >>>> implementable. I want the duration of the tasks to remain the same.
    >>>>
    >>>> Also it changes the duration of my project from 26 days to 11962
    >>>> days. I expected more like 40 days, not 32 years, to work on this
    >>>> project.
    >>>>
    >>>> Any idea where I might be going wrong?
    >>>>
    >>>> Thanks heaps!
    >>>>
    >>>> "Mike Glen" <glenATmvps.org> wrote in message
    >>>> news:evy5HLh#DHA.2660@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
    >>>>> Hi ,
    >>>>>
    >>>>> Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :)
    >>>>>
    >>>>> You might like to have a look at my series of Microsoft Project
    >>>>> lessons in the TechTrax ezine, particularly Lesson 5-Working With
    >>>>> Resources, at this site:
    >>>>>
    >>>>
    >>>
    >>
    >
    http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMFrame.asp?CMD=ArticleSearch&AU
    >>>> TH=23
    >>>>>
    >>>>> FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can
    >>>>> be seen at this web address: <http://www.mvps.org/project/>
    >>>>>
    >>>>> Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on :)
    >>>>>
    >>>>> Mike Glen
    >>>>> MS Project MVP
    >>>>>
    >>>>>
    >>>>> Fredo Vincentis wrote:
    >>>>>> I have entered all my tasks into Project 2000, entered my
    >>>>>> resources and allocated them to the tasks. I also set a few
    >>>>>> predecessors for those tasks that rely on others to be completed
    >>>>>> first. What I expected was that Project would start a new task
    >>>>>> "as soon as possible" without overallocating resources. But
    >>>>>> instead of doing that, all my resources are hopelessly
    >>>>>> overallocated. I didn't change the start-times or end-times, all
    >>>>>> I changed was the duration of each task.
    >>>>>>
    >>>>>> Any idea where I'm going wrong?
    >>>>>>
    >>>>>> Thanks for your help.

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