Leveling Resource across Multiple Projects?

[Jennifer]

Hello,

I have multiple projects published to Project Server.
These projects use many of the same resources, stored in
a shared enterprise resource pool.

Is there a way to level these resources to fix over and
under allocations? If there isn't a way to level them,
is there an easy way to fix these allocations to maximize
resource usage and effectiveness across multiple projects?

Any help would be appreciated.

Jennifer

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Jennifer,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

The only thing Project will do is to level resources that are overallocated
by delaying the start of one or more of the tasks. It cannot optimise
The rest is up to you to do by applying your skills of project management
and your knowledge of the resources' capabilities and the demands of the
tasks (Project doesn't know any of this!).

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: <http://www.mvps.org/project/>

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on )

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP

 

[Jennifer]

Hi Mike...

Thanks for the response.

To clarify: Can it do the leveling across published
projects? I have not been able to figure this out - if
it's even possible.

I have person #1 with tasks on projects A, B & C - those
tasks have varying deadlines. Is there a way for Project
to level (by splitting or delaying tasks) across the
multiple projects?

Thanks again - I appreciate the help!

Jennifer

 

[Scott Button]

Jennifer:

My understanding from researching other posts (for my own reasons) is that
if you open the project files that you want to level into MS Project, and
select Level Resources...Level now, MS Project will level considering all
assignments in memory.

You can set the priorities in the Project...Project Information dialog box.
If there is a cross-project resource conflict, a task on the lower priority
project will be delayed and the task on the higher priority project will
remain fixed.

You said you want to " maximize resource usage and effectiveness across
multiple
projects".

Are you sure this is the objective your leadership wants to maximize? I
would think they would want to maximize the number of project completed in a
given period of time. Maximizing resource utilization for all resources does
not achieve this objective.

Scott

 

[Jennifer]

Thanks Scott! It is working great!

I appreciate the help,
Jennifer