MS Project resources, leveling

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Mon 29 Nov 2010, 21:11 Edited on Thu 2 Dec 2010, 17:27 Delegate Igors said...

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MS Project resources, leveling

Hello!

There is one Task (fixed work) with an assigned working resource (person/persons) and some duration.
I would like to decrease duration of the Task by adding more resources, so I use additional person/persons which are finishing other tasks and becoming available (later! than start date of the Task but till the end of the Task will be available).
After that there is overallocation (new resource was busy few days from start of the Task) which was resolved by leveling.
As result we have resources with equaling hours and different start and finish dates.
But I need to have one finish date for all resources (Task must be finished by all persons).
Is there a correct way to do this? Is it possible to do this automaticaly?

Thank you!
Igor

Mon 13 Dec 2010, 13:38 Trainer Andrew said...

RE: MS Project resources, leveling

Hi Igor

It sounds like leveling is doing its best to keep the resouce allocation within the max units for each resource, however to achieve this work is being carried out over a longer time frame than you'd like. Resources are alos finishing on different days.

Part of the problem may be the default behaviour of Project to start and finish tasks as early as possible.

One approach could be to try a different constraint e.g. As Late As Possible, immediately followed by a milestone with Start No Earier Than set to a date that makes sense to your project. Better yet if you create an example file showing the problem you are encountering and send it to info@stl-training.co.uk for the attention of Andrew and I will have a look at it.

Kind regards,
Andrew

Wed 15 Dec 2010, 12:46 Delegate Igors said...

RE: MS Project resources, leveling

Hi, Andrew!

Thanks,
I have e-mail files for You.

Kind regards,
Igor

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MS Project tip:

Keep constraining dates to a minimum

As far as possible avoid fixing the dates of your tasks. For example try to steer of clear dragging task bars in the Gantt chart to move them on the timeline or entering dates directly into the Start / Finish fields.

Date constraints such as these limit Microsoft Project's ability to automatically adjust your project whenever you add, remove or modify the duration of your tasks. Instead use the logic in your task dependencies that link your tasks to enable Project to calculate the start and finish dates for you.

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