PS2007 - Assignment Units Wacky

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Bernie E

We're using PS2007 SP1. All of our tasks are fixed units. Resources are
using the My Tasks view to update actual and remaining time. The weird
thing is that the Assignment Units for each of the assignments keeps growing
each day to ridiculously high values. For example, one resource has a
60-hour assignment that shows 648.65 units. The PM is accepting task
updates and publishing each day, but is not changing the units for the tasks.
It seems PS2007 is doing this.

What is going on? Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.
Bernie
 
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Rod Gill

Hi,

Units is actually peak units. So, if a lot of hours are entered for one day,
then the peak units for that day are high whilst the Units for the whole
task duration may be unchanged. Look at peak units in the Task Usage View in
Project pro to see if this explains what is happening for you.

--

Rod Gill
Microsoft MVP for Project

Author of the only book on Project VBA, see:
http://www.projectvbabook.com
 
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Bernie E

We use a 5-hour day for our standard calendar, and there are some days that
people will enter 8 or 9 hours against a task. That said, is it even
possible that peak units would be over 600 times 1 unit? I don't understand
how that math would be possible. And this is happening on every one of our
tasks.

Any further insights based on this additional information?

Regards,
Bernie
 
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Bernie E

Anybody got ideas on what is going on here? To add more color, every time
the Task Approver approves a task update (actual hours and remaining time
method), the resource units for the assignment increases. It seems to
increase exponentially. Two days ago, the units for a 60-hour task
assignment was 648 (decimal not percentage). Today, the units is over 1,500.
This is happening for all tasks.
 

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