Creating Resource Group in MS Project (diff approach)

[cc77lemon]

Hi,

Sorry to keep beating the horse about this subject, but I haven't been
able to find quite what I'm looking for..

•I want to create a resource group named: TEAM_GO
•TEAM_GO is in a different country with a different calendar, so
therefore, I want this TEAM_GO to have it's own working calendar for
holidays et cetera.
•I then want to add two individuals into this group
•These two individuals have different availabilities throughout the
course of the project (i.e. vacation schedule) So I want to be able
to further specify their working times in their own calendar/
availability. e.g. which days they won't be working.
•I then want to add TEAM_GO to a particular tast in the project and
have the task calculate out its duration based on units allocated as
well as working availability of the members in the group. As both
members will work on the same task, and back eachother up while on
vacations.

To assign every single person to a task individually is just hell on
the eyes of a printout or screen presentation of the gantt chart, and
if one can group up resources that all work on the same task within
the group, then it'd be much better IMO.

Anyway to do this? Seems logical to me. BTW I'm using MS Project 2000

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

You cannot assign a group of people (the gfroup being a single "resource" in
the resoruce sheet) to a task and have the load calculated for each one
independently. Sorry you can't. Not.
Hope this helps,

--
Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
+32 495 300 620
For availability check:
http://users.online.be/prom-ade/Calendar.pdf
Hi,

Sorry to keep beating the horse about this subject, but I haven't been
able to find quite what I'm looking for..

•I want to create a resource group named: TEAM_GO
•TEAM_GO is in a different country with a different calendar, so
therefore, I want this TEAM_GO to have it's own working calendar for
holidays et cetera.
•I then want to add two individuals into this group
•These two individuals have different availabilities throughout the
course of the project (i.e. vacation schedule) So I want to be able
to further specify their working times in their own calendar/
availability. e.g. which days they won't be working.
•I then want to add TEAM_GO to a particular tast in the project and
have the task calculate out its duration based on units allocated as
well as working availability of the members in the group. As both
members will work on the same task, and back eachother up while on
vacations.

To assign every single person to a task individually is just hell on
the eyes of a printout or screen presentation of the gantt chart, and
if one can group up resources that all work on the same task within
the group, then it'd be much better IMO.

Anyway to do this? Seems logical to me. BTW I'm using MS Project 2000

 

[cc77lemon]

Hi,

You cannot assign a group of people (the gfroup being a single "resource"in
the resoruce sheet) to a task and have the load calculated for each one
independently. Sorry you can't. Not.
Hope this helps,

--
Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
+32 495 300 620

Hi,

Sorry to keep beating the horse about this subject, but I haven't been
able to find quite what I'm looking for..

•I want to create a resource group named:  TEAM_GO
•TEAM_GO is in a different country with a different calendar, so
therefore, I want this TEAM_GO to have it's own working calendar for
holidays et cetera.
•I then want to add two individuals into this group
•These two individuals have different availabilities throughout the
course of the project (i.e. vacation schedule)  So I want to be able
to further specify their working times in their own calendar/
availability.  e.g. which days they won't be working.
•I then want to add TEAM_GO to a particular tast in the project and
have the task calculate out its duration based on units allocated as
well as working availability of the members in the group.  As both
members will work on the same task, and back eachother up while on
vacations.

To assign every single person to a task individually is just hell on
the eyes of a printout or screen presentation of the gantt chart, and
if one can group up resources that all work on the same task within
the group, then it'd be much better IMO.

Anyway to do this?  Seems logical to me.  BTW I'm using MS Project 2000

Thanks for your reply. That's too bad IMO. I really wish MS Project
would let us do this somehow. Each resource has different
availabilities and possibly belong to a different region's calendar as
well. Also multiple resources may back eachother up in times of
vacations/leaves. A group could easily have 5-10 members working on
the same task, and to have to put every single resource member into
the gantt, makes it really crowded. Try printing that information out
and including all those resources easily visible on the gantt would be
a nightmare it seems.

Your reply helps, but your answer doesn't. hehe Thanks anyways...

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

HI,

With more than one resoruce on a task, maybe better forget the Gantt Chart
and use Task Usage View.

--
Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
+32 495 300 620
For availability check:
http://users.online.be/prom-ade/Calendar.pdf

Hi,

You cannot assign a group of people (the gfroup being a single "resource"
in
the resoruce sheet) to a task and have the load calculated for each one
independently. Sorry you can't. Not.
Hope this helps,

--
Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
+32 495 300 620
For availability
check:http://users.online.be/prom-ade/Calendar.pdf<[email protected]>
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Hi,

Sorry to keep beating the horse about this subject, but I haven't been
able to find quite what I'm looking for..

•I want to create a resource group named: TEAM_GO
•TEAM_GO is in a different country with a different calendar, so
therefore, I want this TEAM_GO to have it's own working calendar for
holidays et cetera.
•I then want to add two individuals into this group
•These two individuals have different availabilities throughout the
course of the project (i.e. vacation schedule) So I want to be able
to further specify their working times in their own calendar/
availability. e.g. which days they won't be working.
•I then want to add TEAM_GO to a particular tast in the project and
have the task calculate out its duration based on units allocated as
well as working availability of the members in the group. As both
members will work on the same task, and back eachother up while on
vacations.

To assign every single person to a task individually is just hell on
the eyes of a printout or screen presentation of the gantt chart, and
if one can group up resources that all work on the same task within
the group, then it'd be much better IMO.

Anyway to do this? Seems logical to me. BTW I'm using MS Project 2000

Thanks for your reply. That's too bad IMO. I really wish MS Project
would let us do this somehow. Each resource has different
availabilities and possibly belong to a different region's calendar as
well. Also multiple resources may back eachother up in times of
vacations/leaves. A group could easily have 5-10 members working on
the same task, and to have to put every single resource member into
the gantt, makes it really crowded. Try printing that information out
and including all those resources easily visible on the gantt would be
a nightmare it seems.

Your reply helps, but your answer doesn't. hehe Thanks anyways...