How to plan Maintenance task?

[TP]

Hello

For Maintenance project, we would like to see the work of a task being
spread along the year for assigned resources.

Parameters used for this kind of task T1: Fixed duration (Duration = 250d) /
No effort driven / Start date=Jan 02 / End date=Dec 29 / Contrainst type=Must
finish on=Dec 29.

So, for Resource R1, if the total work is 12d, we can observe 1d per month.
And for Resource R2, if the total of work si 24d, we can observe 2d per
month.

But, after updating Actuals in the project, the end date of each assignment
changes. The Work contour moves from Flat to Contoured automatically. So,
task T1 for R1 could finish on Sept and for R2 on Oct. That's what we do not
want!

We want the T1 to finish on Dec 29 and the remaining Work spreads equally
during the remaining months of the year.

Any idea of how to?
Many thanks in advance

 

[Rod Gill]

The approach I use is not to have maintenance work scheduled. Instead I
calculate the average hours per week or month each resource needs to spend
on maintenance (or support Etc.) then I remove this amount from the Max
Units. So, 10h per week on maintenance, I adjust the Max units down to 75%.
I further reduce it if necessary for admin time. I therefore only have in
max units the availability for all project work.

 

[TP]

With the suggested solution below, by reducing the max unit, will we always
see Overallocation when opening projects (resource Usage view with all Work
and Actuals from different projects)?

I would like to see Remaining Work spreading along the year for assigned
resources. Because the assignment finish date has automatically been changed
after a project save, the remaining work is always spread from today date to
the assignement finish date.

Any idea how to fix? Thanks


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