Minute Overallocation

[opo]

This problem really bugs me.
1. Lets say we have a 5hr task that is scheduled to be done in 5 days. (that
makes 1hr of work per day = 13% Unit Utilization)
2. I add another task in one of the five days lasting for 1hr with 100%
utilization.

!!! I am immediately overallocated because the first activity takes 1.875
minutes for every 15 minutes and adding another activity where i'm using 15
minutes out of 15 overallocates me in that hour by 1.875 *4=7.5minutes.

My question is:
1. Can I make the system automatically add up the minutes for a task into
one block per day?

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi opo,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

Try levelling and allow splitting to occur.

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

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP
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[opo]

When I do that the whole project becomes 5days and 1hr long.
(the 1hr split the 5day project)... and thats not right.

in the real world a person would reserve one hour of work per day (and not
work 7.5min every hour for 8h). that way having other tasks and leveling will
not make the whole project last longer.

any other tips?

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

The answer is bluntly no, sorry.
The solution is to ignore the "overallocation"
HTH