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hnasje

Problem:
Two employees:
1: 5 working days of 8 hours
2: 4 working days of 9 hours

When I plan a task for 5 days, the first person works 40 hours as
expected, the second person works 35.5 hours (the first day only 8.5
hours) I expect 36 hours.

Why is MS project doing this??

Thanks for any help
Hans
 
J

Jan De Messemaeker

Hi,

The working time of resource 2 starts 30 min before the default task start
So it only has 8.5 hrs left from task start.
HTH
 
H

Hans van Zwet

Hi Jan (and others),

Thanks for the quick reply.
The two persons in the example are both working on another task so they should
not influence each other.

To sketch the real idea:
I have a number of resources at my disposal.
Some are working 5 x 8 hours a week, other are working 4*9 hours a week.
The working time must be between 7:00 and 19:00.

So what is the best way to work with this?

Thanks for any help

Hans


Jan De Messemaeker schreef:
 
J

Jan De Messemaeker

Dag Hans,

Your questions become ever more curious.

"The two persons in the example are both working on another task "
Then create two tasks, why create one task with two resources when in
reality these are two tasks?

"they should not influence each other"
They don't, what makes you think they do? My reply talks about the influence
of the Project Calendar and each resource calendar, not about the two
resources influencing each other

"Some are working 5 x 8 hours a week, other are working 4*9 hours a week.
The working time must be between 7:00 and 19:00"

If they have the same working times how can one work 9 hrs a day and the
other one 8? Do they have different luch breaks? Between 7 and 19 tehre are
12 hrs. How consistent is that with the 8 and 9 hrs?

Recommendation
------------------

Start by looking at what happens with one resoruce on a task. Create two
tasks for this situation.
Make a Project calendar 5 d/week 7-19
Now create the working times calendar for resource 1: Define shifts covering
8 hrs a day (f.i. 8-12 and 13-17) for five days a week.
Now create working time calendar for resource 2. Choos which day you will
exstimate to be a nonworking daty (for instance Wednesday). Make it
nonworking, and for the other days, create shifts totaling 9 hrs (f.i. 7-12
and 13-17).

In tools, Options, Calendar, select what you want Project to be "a day". Is
it 8 hours or 9? Your choice! Same for "a week". You must tell project whet
you mean by a day and a week, Project opnly knows the minute as a unit.

Select 7 am as "efault Start time" and 19:00 as default end tilme.

Go to http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm and read faq5: Default working
hours.
Come back with the remaining questioins :))

Groeten,
 

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