How do I get tasks spread out?

[David Thielen]

I have a bunch of tasks in. I've assigned resources to them. But
Project is assuming that each resources can work on 40 tasks at the
same time and so they are starting all of them today.

How do I get it to realize that a resource can only do 1 thing at a
time?

thanks - dave

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[David Thielen]

MSP cannot make any assumption that you might hope that it should make, no
matter how obvious you think that assumption should be.
It only follows your instructions.
Without any instructions from you, how can it possibly assume which of the
40 tasks happens when?
It does, however, tell you when you have created a problem that you should
attend to, and leaves it to you to choose a way to attend to it.
In the Resource Sheet, your over-allocated Resources are red and there is a
warning signal in the Indicators column.
The extent of the over-allocation can be seen by inserting the Peak column,
and also in the Resource Usage and Resource Graph Views.
See Tools, Level Resources.
MSP will delay tasks until the over-allocation disappears.
If you don't like the solution that it comes up with, you can fine tune the
leveling engine.
Let us know how you get on up to this stage and we can discuss further.

Hi;

Thank you for your answer. What I did was enter all my tasks and used
indent to have a main task, a bunch of sub tasks, and individual tasks
under each sub-task.

I then assigned the time required for each task.

I then assigned the resources to each task.

There are virtually no dependencies in my tasks. I understand that I
need to order the group-tasks to make it clear what order they are
being done in. But for the tasks within the group-task, there is no
real "order" per-se.

If I do still need to set this, is there a way to set just the
group-task predecessors and have it just fill out the time among it's
tasks?

thanks - dave

david@[email protected]
Windward Reports -- http://www.WindwardReports.com
me -- http://dave.thielen.com

Cubicle Wars - http://www.windwardreports.com/film.htm

 

[David Thielen]

Got it - thank you!

No. You have to do what I suggested and use Leveling. That's what it's for.

david@[email protected]
Windward Reports -- http://www.WindwardReports.com
me -- http://dave.thielen.com

Cubicle Wars - http://www.windwardreports.com/film.htm