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bkoren
I am using Project Server 2007 in what seems to be a unique way.
All of my estimated and actual times are recorded in a different
application. On a weekly basis I export all my project data out of that
other application into an Excel format which I then import into MS Project.
This means that each week I open the project, delete everything out of it and
import the new information. This seems to work great in that I don't need to
do double work by reentering all the information into MS Project. However,
when I do this, there are numerous cases where a resource has already
exceeded the orginal estimate on a project and the resource allocation
becomes something larger than 100% (I've seen it as high as 4,000%). When I
attempt to level my resources I am prompted for each resource that is
overallocated (which is just about everybody). I manually go into each task
and change the resource allocation to 100% which in turn I tell Project to
adjust the duration.
My questions:
1. Do I need to do this? Do I need to set my resource allocations to
something lower? What is the impact if I do not do this? I think I have to
do this or the leveling will cause the schedule to not come out correctly.
2. If in fact, I am doing the right thing by changing the allocations, is
there a way to reset all my resources to 100% enmasse?
All of my estimated and actual times are recorded in a different
application. On a weekly basis I export all my project data out of that
other application into an Excel format which I then import into MS Project.
This means that each week I open the project, delete everything out of it and
import the new information. This seems to work great in that I don't need to
do double work by reentering all the information into MS Project. However,
when I do this, there are numerous cases where a resource has already
exceeded the orginal estimate on a project and the resource allocation
becomes something larger than 100% (I've seen it as high as 4,000%). When I
attempt to level my resources I am prompted for each resource that is
overallocated (which is just about everybody). I manually go into each task
and change the resource allocation to 100% which in turn I tell Project to
adjust the duration.
My questions:
1. Do I need to do this? Do I need to set my resource allocations to
something lower? What is the impact if I do not do this? I think I have to
do this or the leveling will cause the schedule to not come out correctly.
2. If in fact, I am doing the right thing by changing the allocations, is
there a way to reset all my resources to 100% enmasse?