overallocation leveling issues

[Tammy]

If I add two tasks to occur on the same date (fixed
Duration or fixed units), and I change the work to be one
hour each, it is still saying that I'm at 200%
allocation. It seems to ignore my Work (2 hrs total) and
use Units (100%) so I'm at 200% allocation. I don't
understand how to force it to recognize Work without
playing around with units, duration and work an excess
amount. Shouldn't units be recalculated when I change the
other two fields?

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Not with fixed duration is it?
With Fixed duration and Work changinh-g, Units will change. Sure.
HTH

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[Steve House]

The times of your two tasks are also important. The percentage of an
assignment is an instantaneous sort of deal and overallocation is a peak
number. If I have two tasks each of 1 hour duration that I am assigned to
100% I am assigned to work on them each for one hour. I am allowed to work
8 hours in a day. Yet when I look at my resouce sheet it shows my
allocation to be at 200% and I am overallocated. How can that be, since I'm
only working 2 hours but 100% maximum means I'm allowed to work 8? Because
both of these one hour tasks are scheduled at the same time of day, say from
8 until 9 am. This for that one hour time period I'm being expected to do 2
hours worth of work over 1 hour on the clock, an impossibility. I can't be
in two places at once. Resource leveling on an hour-by-hour basis will
cause one of those tasks to shift so as to start an hour later, at 9 am, and
we'll be fine once again. If you've double booked a resource for even one
minute, they are over allocated and it's not that Project is ignoring your
work but rather that the total work is not the only consideration - it's not
just how much work occurs but also when it occurs.

 

[Tammy]

It's for the same day. I believe what MS Project is
trying to do is book the person for 200% within the same
hour of the day. That doesn't seem to make sense since it
knows enough to recalculate for longer periods of time I
believe.

 

[Gérard DUCOURET]

Hello Tammy
<<Shouldn't units be recalculated when I change the other two fields? >>
MSP will work that way if you choose Task Type = Fixed duration, and Effort driven

Hope this help,

Gérard Ducouret

 

[Steve House]

It won't recalculate duration but it will adjust the start times to resolve
the conflict if you use the resource leveling tool. That's what it's there
for <grin>.


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It's for the same day. I believe what MS Project is
trying to do is book the person for 200% within the same
hour of the day. That doesn't seem to make sense since it
knows enough to recalculate for longer periods of time I
believe.