Allocation % changing

[Mike]

Currently when our scheduler runs through our master plans and
schedules/levels everything, many of my % allocations change in my
plans. I dug through some archives here and found a response from
Dale that was relevant from December 2007 here:

=================================================
You DO NOT need to reset the Units value for each resource after
updating
actuals into the Microsoft Project plan. Here's what you don't
understand:
the Units value you see for each resource assigned to a task
initially
represents the original Units value. After updating actuals, however,
the
number represents the Peak Units for each task assignment, which is
the
maximum percentage of a working day shown in either the Actual Work
field or
the Remaining Work field over the life of the task. For example, I
assign a
resource at 50% Units on a task. When reporting actuals, the
resource
enters 6 hours of Actual Work during one of the days in the reporting
period. The 6 hours of Actual Work converts to a Peak Units value of
75%.
When you update the progress on the task, the system automatically
changes
the Peak Units value for the task assignment to 75%, but continues to
assign
the Remaining Work hours at 50% Units across the remainder of the
task.


I don't know where you got the idea that you have to reset the Units
value
back to its original value on each task, but I believe you are wasting
a lot
of time doing so. Hope this helps.


--
Dale A. Howard [MVP]
=====================================================

A question I have in addition to this though, is why am I seeing some
of my %'s at like 15,000% or 4,096%? I'm probably missing a valid and/
or obvious reason why these allocations would be so weird, but I
haven't been able to find a good answer as of yet.

Thoughts anyone?

Thank you,
Mike

 

[Mike]

Currently when our scheduler runs through our master plans and
schedules/levels everything, many of my % allocations change in my
plans.  I dug through some archives here and found a response from
Dale that was relevant from December 2007 here:

=================================================
You DO NOT need to reset the Units value for each resource after
updating
actuals into the Microsoft Project plan.  Here's what you don't
understand:
the Units value you see for each resource assigned to a task
initially
represents the original Units value.  After updating actuals, however,
the
number represents the Peak Units for each task assignment, which is
the
maximum percentage of a working day shown in either the Actual Work
field or
the Remaining Work field over the life of the task.  For example, I
assign a
resource at 50% Units on a task.  When reporting actuals, the
resource
enters 6 hours of Actual Work during one of the days in the reporting
period.  The 6 hours of Actual Work converts to a Peak Units value of
75%.
When you update the progress on the task, the system automatically
changes
the Peak Units value for the task assignment to 75%, but continues to
assign
the Remaining Work hours at 50% Units across the remainder of the
task.

I don't know where you got the idea that you have to reset the Units
value
back to its original value on each task, but I believe you are wasting
a lot
of time doing so.  Hope this helps.

--
Dale A. Howard [MVP]
=====================================================

A question I have in addition to this though, is why am I seeing some
of my %'s at like 15,000% or 4,096%?  I'm probably missing a valid and/
or obvious reason why these allocations would be so weird, but I
haven't been able to find a good answer as of yet.

Thoughts anyone?

Thank you,
Mike

I do have some followup questions of my own as well. Is there a way
or a history of what the original allocation of a unit was? Does it
matter what the original allocation % was? If you manually change the
%, and then update your project and reschedule work that hasn't been
complete, will that affect the reschedule in any way?