leveling?

[Ben]

I level a resource and monday - thursday looks great.
Everything leveled to 8 hours. But, i get an extra hour
every friday. Any ideas?

 

[Steve House]

Can you be more specific? Leveling doesn't adjust the hours someone works
on a task as you seem to be describing - it moves work to resolve situations
where a resource is booked on two conflicting tasks at the same time. Can
you give more detail?

 

[Ben]

steve

I have two projects, both are open when I level
(manual). The one project has two recurring tasks on
friday (both priority 1000), the other project has tasks
spread across the week all with priority 500. The same
resource is assigned to both projects. Even when I
consolidate them and level the resource, project doesnt
resolve the overallocation. I don't even get a prompt
tellimg me project cant resolve. Project move some work,
but doesnt bump out the 500 priority stuff away from the
priority 1000 recurring tasks. Does this make sense?
Also, the recurring tasks and most of the other tasks are
in hours, so should I level by hour even though I want to
level by days?

Thanks for the helpo steve!

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi Ben,

I seem to read that you admit that your resoruce is overallocated on Friday
(two priority 1000 tasks, which by definition will not move...); that means
that Project "gives up" that Friday and doesn't try anything any more.
HTH

 

[Steve House]

Just guessing because you haven't mentioned the durations of the various
tasks but if as I suspect each overallocation occurs for less than full day
time period, leveling day-by-day will ignore it. That's what that setting
is - the smallest time increment that you want Project's the leveling engine
to worry about. If your recurring task is a staff meeting every Friday from
9 til 10, for example, and your regular task is widget waxing, schedules for
8 hours 8-5 and it happens to fall on Friday as well, leveling day-by-day
will not resolve the overallocation because the "problem time" is only 1
hour in length, less than a full day. Leveling hour-by-hour will do it and
if the meeting is a higher priority it will sit pat and the widgets task
schedule will change. If leveling can split tasks is on, the resource will
be shown working on the widgets 8 to 9, going to the meeting from 9 til 10,
and then going back to the widgets task for the rest of the day plus one
hour on Monday (still have to do a total of 8 hours of work on the widgets,
regardless, and leveling will never change the assignment percentage or the
total hours required for the task, controlling only when those hours occur).
If tasks can split is off, leveling hour-by-hour will cause the widgets
task to shift forward intact *2* hours, leaving the resource idle from 8 til
9, at the meeting from 9 til 10, then working on the widgets the rest of the
day plus 2 hours on Monday.

Hope this helps.

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