Calendar and Work

[Ehsan Khan]

Dear all,

I was creating a project plan for a consultant who is working with our
organization on part time basis. He is the only one executing the project
thus the timings of the project depends on his availability. Now he is
available on

Sunday: 9 - 12
Monday: 10 - 3
Tuesday: 9 - 6
Thursday: 10 - 6

I updated the project calendar to depict his timings. The resource is also
following the same timings. I then created the tasks and started giving the
durations which means I updated the duration field. e.g.

Task 1 - 2 days - 13 June - 14 June
Task 2 - 3 days - 15 June - 17 June

Now when I assign the resouce and look at his work It shows 16 hours and 24
hours. I thought that it should calculate the work based on the number of
work hours per day as per the calender i.e. 3 hours on Sunday, 5 hours on
Monday etc. I donot want to change the hours work per day from options ->
calendar as this applies to everyday in my case the work hours differ
everyday. How would you resolve such scenarios ??? where consultants come in
and do the assigned work

Thanks.....

 

[Rami]

Dear Ehsan

I did the following:

1-I created a new calendar for the consultant that take into consideration
his working hours
2-I opened the resources pool and update the calendar for this consultant to
be the new one
3-Now when you assign him, MS project will take care of this timing.

Regards