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leveling Ressoueces (with different units) Microsoft Project

leveling Ressoueces (with different units)

Posted: 03 Jun 2005 02:54 AM PDT

No, because as I explained yesterday, what you are describing as the desired
schedule is the work pattern of a resource assigned 100% to a 2 hour
duration task, by the very definition of Work and Duration. It is what it
is and wanting something else is doomed to frustration - 2+2 equals 4
whether you like it or not. Remember duration is the amount of (potential
working) time units between when work is first performed on a task and when
it is finished. If work starts on your task at 8am and finishes at 10am,
that's a 2 hour duration task by definition - period, end of story. If your
resource is spending his full time during those 2 hours doing that task and
produces 2 hours of FTE work output in the process, he is assigned 100%,
again by definition. If you set up an 8 hour duration task and assign the
resource to it 25% and watch him work, you're going to see him physically
involved in doing that task from 8am until 5pm.

Viewed another way, if the task is to make 100 widgets and he can make 50 an
hour doing nothing else, 2 hours at 100% means at 10am he has finished all
100, 8 hours at 25% means at 10am he has only finished 25 widgets and will
be working on them off and on until 5pm to do all 100.
--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
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"MAT" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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display total resource graph for project

Posted: 03 Jun 2005 02:49 AM PDT

Andy,

In the Resource Graph view :
Format / Bar styles
right hand : Resources Show as : Don't Show
Left hand : Filtered Resources : Show as : what you want

Gérard Ducouret

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How do I measure actual progress % versus planned progress %

Posted: 02 Jun 2005 07:36 PM PDT

Hi Claire,

I am not completely sure, that I do understand your question: When you
plan your tasks, you put in your planned run-rate - that's basically
what determines the lead time of the tasks. So when done properly, the
position of the 'current day marker' shows you the progress, which
SHOULD have been made.

Additionally, you put in the completion factor of your tasks. If the
completion of your task matches the position of the current day marker,
you are on track.

Does this answer your question?

BR,
Dirk

Claire Brereton wrote: 

Track Estimated vs Actual work

Posted: 02 Jun 2005 06:41 PM PDT

John, thanks, I thought that might be the case.

What is the best way to then compare the Baseline schedule to your current
schedule?

Thanks


"John" wrote:
 

Task Creation Guidelines

Posted: 02 Jun 2005 11:38 AM PDT

Like Jack I like to suggest that the task names always begin with an action
verb. This keeps one focussed on the idea that performance tasks
(non-summary tasks in other words) always represent actions being performed
by resources. "Contract Signed" is not a task, it is an objective, at best
a pseudo-task, and if it marks an important deliverable (as it probably
would in that example) it would be represented in the schedule as a
milestone. But "Meet to negotiate contract - 3 days," "Type contract - 4
hours," "Sign contract at press conference - 15 minutes" are all actually
tasks because they represent observable physical or mental activity carried
out by people. One test - if you delete all the milestone entries and all
the summary task lines, leaving all the "blue-bar" tasks, does *all* the
work required to complete the project still get done? If you've correctly
identified the tasks it will be.


--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
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How do I change task duration

Posted: 02 Jun 2005 11:36 AM PDT

Addng to Jan - durations of activities are freely editable but although it
sallows you to change task start and end dates, you should not do so except
in certain specific circumstances. You don't tell Project when you're going
to do the tasks, you tell it what you need to do and how long it will take
to do each one of them and it tells you whan you CAN do your tasks. You
don't figure out the schedule, it does. Over-riding its calculations by
supplying the dates of tasks almost always leads to serious problems.
Remember, it is a schedule CREATION tool, not merely a schedule
DOCUMENTATION tool. It's a calculator, not a just pretty but expensive
Gantt-chart drawing tool.
--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs


"Scott" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Level by priority

Posted: 02 Jun 2005 09:02 AM PDT

Hi,

In my experience when the difference in Prioriyty is large enough the high
proirity ones come first.
From my observation Project does not sort first by priority, then by...
etcetera but it makes a weighted sum of the different parameters.

This being said, your long tasks don't have an actual starting date have
they?
And is "Leveling can split" ON? If not, a low priority tasks that starts
because it is the only possible job for a resource some day will go to the
end even when hi priority tasks come up.

Hope this helps,
--
Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
http://users.online.be/prom-ade/
+32-495-300 620
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View Specific Date Range

Posted: 02 Jun 2005 07:01 AM PDT

Roland,
This feature doesn't exist in MS Project.
Nevertheless, you can cobble up a calendar:
Tools / Change Working time / New...
where all the previous months are set as non working time, idem for the
months after the period.
Double Click the timescale. On the Non working time tab, select your
calendar and choose Draw : in front of the bars

Gérard Ducouret



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level ressources with different units

Posted: 02 Jun 2005 05:05 AM PDT

Doing it the way you ask is assigning the resource 100% to a 2 hour duration
task, not 25% to an 8 hour duration task. The resource units percentage
doesn't refer to the percentage of their day that is spent on the task as is
often believed. Instead it is the rate at which the TIME they're are
spending is converted into useful WORK output, 100% meaning that all the of
the time they spend is reflected in the work they get done. If I work an 8
hour day and devote my full attention to a task that takes me 1 hour, 8
until 9, to complete, doing nothing else at the same time, I'm doing 1
man-hour's worth of work on that task. 1 hour of work done during 1 hour of
duration = 100% assignment, even though it's only a small portion of my
workday that I'm spending on that particular task. I'm at 12.5% if I take
all day to accomplish what I could have done in 1 hour if I'd worked on it
full-speed.

--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs



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How to Convert a group of selected tasks in mpp to pdf?

Posted: 02 Jun 2005 12:16 AM PDT

I want to convert a group of selected tasks in .mpp file to pdf file, could
any body please help me?

Thank you in advance

Export Summary Tasks to Excel

Posted: 01 Jun 2005 07:03 PM PDT

John is correct, this is a "hidden feature" of P2K. It has apparently been
corrected and Project 2003 will export the summary along with the header row
if the "export header" box is checked on the export map.

"trebor48" wrote:
 

How to resolve a gap in task ID numbering

Posted: 01 Jun 2005 04:23 PM PDT

Bingo! That's exactly right. Tasks 4 through 7 did have external successor
links (I discovered this via the Tools/Links between projects command). I
deleted the external links there , the mystery tasks disappeared, and the
remaining task IDs renumbered correctly. Thanks!

"JackD" wrote:
 

Percent complete not rolling up to 100% - Project 2003

Posted: 01 Jun 2005 02:24 PM PDT

Thank you. You have been an incredible help.

Kurt
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"Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist.
Children already know that dragons exist.
Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
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Custom Indicators

Posted: 01 Jun 2005 11:13 AM PDT

As far as I know, you can't.
;-(

Gérard Ducouret

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% Complete not updating to Web Access

Posted: 01 Jun 2005 09:17 AM PDT

Thanks! That worked. I didn't even notice it wasn't checked.

"Dale Howard [MVP]" wrote:
 

Cum Work changing

Posted: 01 Jun 2005 07:56 AM PDT

That couldn't be the problem as we have tried it on 4 different computers on
two different LAN"s. We have tried it with Project 2002 and Project 2003
and gotten the same results on different computers.

Do you have another suggestion?

r/Jon


"Steve House [Project MVP]" wrote:
 

Subproject & Master Project

Posted: 31 May 2005 04:07 PM PDT

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"Deb's Project's questions"
<microsoft.com> wrote:
 


Deb,
You're welcome. One thing I forgot to mention. Being a new user, you
might want to go to the MVP website at:
http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm
and check out the frequently asked questions. You could also check out
the Links and Downloads page. It has links to some excellent reference
material put together by my fellow MVPs.

John