Resource Usage function

[Patc]

I am working with a resource pool
Individual projects are established using this
Attempt to utilise resources < 100% for a particular project

Aim: to determine resource usage per individual as well as have line of site
easily for when resources become available

1)Open the project resource usage icon and select a resource
2)Some task sets for that resource appear more than one 3 times for example
(Meeting ,Compile stress test environment,Adapt Data Loading scripts with
the associated time is there x3) thus the total time allocation for the day
is calculated three times , giving a huge overutilisation ( not
intentionally!)

Please can you help

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

Look for the help on Resource Leveling which is the function you seem to
need.
HTH

 

[Patc]

Hi Jan
Thanks for the suggestion re resource levelling, but this has not helped. I
get the error" MS project cannot resolve the overallocation of CF on SEPT

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Then there is an overallocation due to at least one of the taks on its own
right, and not only through the combination of several tasks OR
The taks are marked as complete OR
The tasks have a strong constraint (MUST, FNLT...) OR
they have priority 1000.

HTH

 

[Patc]

Hi Jan, me again

The task is 0% complete, there is no constraint, priority = 0 and this for
an individual task. I changed the % complete to 10%, and there was no change;
any more ideas? I am on MS project 2000

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

You didn't answer to the possibility that the overallocation was due to one
of the tasks in its own right (meaning that at lest one of the task had a
%allocation larger that the resoruce's max units)
HTH

 

[Patc]

Hi Jan

None of the tasks are overallocated, however I am making progress - it looks
like this has something to do with a combination of levelling requirement and
the resource pool retaining the version detail each time I save. Will let you
know if I solve the issue completely - in the meanwhile, thanks for the
pointers