How to allocate workers in Microsoft Project

[VD]

I was given this question:
Suppose only six workers are available at any one time for the duration of
the project. Given the same start date and 6-day work week from Question Set
1, above, allocate workers to finish the project as quickly as possible. Make
sure no more than six workers are being used at once!

What I want to know is how can I allocate only six workers to be available
at once? So once a task is finished that worker goes on to the next available
task while the others are still working on other tasks

 

[VD]

Please HELP!!!
or email me at (e-mail address removed)
thanks

 

[vanita]

Hi

Follow the following process:
1. Prepare the Time schedule
2. Prepare resources database in View > Resource sheet. There input max.
available in 'Max units' column. To change this data from percentage to
numbers go to Tools > options> schedule and select 'Show assignment units as'
decimal.
3. Assign resources to activities.
4. Run Resource levelling. If on a non-critical activity resource is
assigned more than max available software will adjust. But, if resource
overallocation is because of a critical activity, you should adjust resources
and time schedule manually to get optimum combination of the two.

I hope it helps.
Vanita

 

[Rob Schneider]

VD.

Your first post was at 04:44 and 6 minutes later this plea! I'm curious
why you thought there would be instantaneous response. This is a
newsgroup form discussing Microsoft Project by the "community" of people
interested in the topic. Sounds like you are taking an exam and you
want us to answer for you?

To make Project do what you have been asked to do, you have to input the
model for the project into Project. Project will no automatically
reassign workers from a completed task to another task when done. That
is up to you. Project is a tool which computes based on what you tell
it to compute.

--rms

www.rmschneider.com

 

[VD]

That kind of helps. Say if I have 12 tasks and each with different amounts of
workers needed (Task 1(1 day) takes 2 workers, Task 2(2 days) takes 1
worker...) If this is the case how can I tell MSP that only 6 workers are
available and that while 6 workers are being used none of the other tasks can
be done. What do I put in the resource column?

Thank you so much for your help.

 

[Rob Schneider]

In the Resource list, say "6" as the number "Max Units" for the resource
named "Worker". Levelling handles the worker contention to ensure the
schedule never uses more than the "Max Units". Your plan, done by you,
has to do the reassignment.

Remember that Project is a complex calculator (with a user interface and
a data model).

--rms

www.rmschneider.com