Resource View ???? Help Please?

[chris.read-smith]

If you create a plan for example and you put say 100 tasks in this
plan each task taking 5 hours each, therefore the entire plans
baseline work is 500 hours. These tasks are on random dates ahead of
today.

You have 1 resource (lets call him Noddy) that can do these tasks and
he is working 7.6 hours a day thus taking him around 66 working days
to complete.

However, the finish date for the project is in 50 days, showing a peak
in the resource graph.

Realistically, there is nothing Noddy can do about this. Noddy's
company is not going to employ anyone else and they are not going to
budge on the finish date.

So, Noddy commences work at project start date and is working to
schedule.. At the end of week one Noddy has done 38 hours of work and
completed everything he was meant to have completed so he now has an
SPI of 1.

Rather than waiting until the following monday to start work, Noddy
comes in on the weekend and knocks off a few of the jobs that werent
meant to have happened until later in the project. (these jobs were
the jobs causing the peak in his resource graph)

On Monday, Noddy comes back into the office and commences his work as
usual.

Now, Little Noddy, he is on schedule, he has completed the work that
was Planned to be done by today, all his jobs that were planned are
100% complete so he has an SPI of 1. On top of this he has also
completed some work that is scheduled ahead of time.. So his SPI is
probably a bit more than 1 indicating he is actually ahead of
schedule. All pretty simple stuff really. If only we all had good
resources like Noddy....

However, there is no resource view in MSP showing that Noddy is the
only resource required to finish the work and that we dont need any
extra resources for those future jobs that were causing the peaks.


Or is there?

 

[Rod Gill]

You have more hours of work than available working hours, so the only way
the schedule can show completion on time is by entering overtime hours,
which are hours over and above what is in the calendar. Or you need to set a
Saturday or two to working to increase available hours for Noddy.

Either of these work, but do not reflect the reality that if Noddy gets
tired from long hours of work, more mistakes will be made and productivity
will drop, so increasing the time needed to complete.

--

Rod Gill
Project MVP

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[chris.read-smith]

You have more hours of work than available working hours, so the only way
the schedule can show completion on time is by entering overtime hours,
which are hours over and above what is in the calendar. Or you need to set a
Saturday or two to working to increase available hours for Noddy.

Either of these work, but do not reflect the reality that if Noddy gets
tired from long hours of work, more mistakes will be made and productivity
will drop, so increasing the time needed to complete.

--

Rod Gill
Project MVP

Project VBA Book, for details visit:
http://www.projectvbabook.com

NEW!! Web based VBA training course delivered by me. For details visit:
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Hi Rod

Thanks for your quick reply. Am happy with setting up calendars to
reflect overtime work etc... What i am trying to see is a resource
view showing the "updated resources required" to do the job since a
job that was completed ahead of schedule has been completed...

Take the standard resource graph - peak view. Is there no way for
that to show that seen a job that was causing a peak is now 100%
complete that peak doesnt really have to exist. Im not saying to use
this view but is there something similar to this.

MSP needs to provide a living a breathing resource view showing an
update resouce graph based on current status of the plan. Another
example. If you have incomplete work, MSP needs a resource view to
show how many resources it will take to get back on schedule. I am
very hesitant about rescheduling as my team will take advantage of
this and think 'well if we dont do the work, we just reschedule the
plan'. This happens on alot of projects. I create a plan and if
behind, I like to see how many resource i need to get back on
schedule.

I dont know, maybe there is one but im not aware of this. I believer
Primavera can do this...

Anyone??.

 

[Crook]

Hi Chris,

What's the old line, fools rush in where angels fear to tread?

Even so, I'll take a crack at this. Based on your posts it appears that you
are familiar with updating project plans with actual hours or job completion
%s. From where is sit, it sounds like updating your project plan to show
that Noddy worked on Saturday to complete some tasks will do the trick. Be
the appropriate options are set to move the work to the left in the schedule
and show early completion. Then you'll have an accurate view of all work to
be done in the future and then can calculate resources required. I suspect
you know all of this and that I've somehow missed the point of your
question.

HTH,
Crook

You have more hours of work than available working hours, so the only way
the schedule can show completion on time is by entering overtime hours,
which are hours over and above what is in the calendar. Or you need to set
a
Saturday or two to working to increase available hours for Noddy.

Either of these work, but do not reflect the reality that if Noddy gets
tired from long hours of work, more mistakes will be made and productivity
will drop, so increasing the time needed to complete.

--

Rod Gill
Project MVP

Project VBA Book, for details visit:
http://www.projectvbabook.com

NEW!! Web based VBA training course delivered by me. For details visit:
http://projectservertraining.com/learning/index.aspx

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- Show quoted text -

Hi Rod

Thanks for your quick reply. Am happy with setting up calendars to
reflect overtime work etc... What i am trying to see is a resource
view showing the "updated resources required" to do the job since a
job that was completed ahead of schedule has been completed...

Take the standard resource graph - peak view. Is there no way for
that to show that seen a job that was causing a peak is now 100%
complete that peak doesnt really have to exist. Im not saying to use
this view but is there something similar to this.

MSP needs to provide a living a breathing resource view showing an
update resouce graph based on current status of the plan. Another
example. If you have incomplete work, MSP needs a resource view to
show how many resources it will take to get back on schedule. I am
very hesitant about rescheduling as my team will take advantage of
this and think 'well if we dont do the work, we just reschedule the
plan'. This happens on alot of projects. I create a plan and if
behind, I like to see how many resource i need to get back on
schedule.

I dont know, maybe there is one but im not aware of this. I believer
Primavera can do this...

Anyone??.