resource leveling - across ALL projects

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We have a dimbo situation in occurance.. all projects uploaded into PWA /PS07
the PM's have used resources consumption at default , that is 100%. With
cross docking of various resources within projects. I am seeing crazy
allocations of 24/26 hrs per resource. This also is creating a fuzziness
with the user's as they really dont know which task needs to be worked on.

Now, having this situation. One way out was to priortize projects with
values between (10-1000) and then do suck them all in under a master project
for resource leveling. Techincally, this will give me a real world view, as
dates will be pushed out based on resource avialablity.

Now, that I have all projects under a master project, I use MSP07 to
resource level. I assume that the project with the highest priorty will not
get effected. However, this is not the case, my dates for the projet with
priority 1000 is getting pushed out.

Secondly, what should I be doing to create a more cohesive view on resource
capacity and level's. I understand that PM's now need to follow a rigour of
ensuring that resouce consumption should be based on avialablily and future
projects that can be done. But, what is to be done to rectify the sitution
that I am in.. that is, ensure that all resources within pipeline project's
are correctly leveled out..

any ideas ??

 

[Gérard Ducouret]

Hello,

In the Resource Leveling dialog, did you select the Leveling Order :
"Priority, Standard" ?
Hope this helps,

Gérard Ducouret

 

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yes, I did that.. but I figure out that we need to user priority settings at
the task level across all projects..

SO,
1) tucked in all projects into a master plan,
2) set priority at the project level
3) copied each priority onto each task of the project
4) userd resource level function
5) saved master project
6) published sub projects as projects in pwa

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