PS 2003 Resource Units on Task Assignments zinging to large percen

[Chris M]

We are encountering some situations on projects that on a particular task,
the units for a given resource went from say, 50% allocation to 1,200,000%
and the other has 358%. The task has a number of resources assigned to it,
and it tends to happen to 1 -2 resources out of the 8 that might be assigned
to the task. Our tasks are Fixed work, effort driven tasks. This particular
task has a FF relationship to others. I can't quite figure out what's
causing this. I've tried doing the whole work x units = duration thing, but
my math is not working out. Has anyone seen this? The impact of this is
causing out dates to 'zing' out to the future.

Thanks!

 

[Jonathan Sofer [MVP]]

Same thing on this one. First thing to do is to specify what service pack
your environment is on. Also verify that all the PM's Project Professional
client machines are on the same service pack as the servers.

Jonathan

 

[Gary L. Chefetz]

Chris:

When using project, the resource units will eventually reflect the resource
peak usage when you enter actual progress into the schedule. The
extraordinarily large number you quote indicates one of two things might be
happening, either the resource was originally allocated to the task at a
very miniscule amount and then worked a whole day or more on it all at once,
or this resource is assigned to a summary task where it suddenly inherited a
lot of actual work.

Understand that peak usage displaying on the Gantt Chart does not alter the
underlying assignment units on assigments waiting to be worked on.

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