Resources Summary View

[Kevin Slane]

When I pull up the Resources Summary view in Project Center for one of my
projects, I can see that I have two resrouces that show a peak of about 170%.
I know they're overallocated, but I can't figure out a way (or a view) to
get Project Server to show me where the overallocation is occurring.

I've gone to the Resource Center and pulled up one of my resources and
clicked the View Availability, but he doesn't have anything that exceeds 8
hours. Am I doing this incorrectly?

 

[Kevin Slane]

I think I figured out my own problem. Within my project, this guy is tasked
at 65%, however, I guess server doesn't show that on the Availability view.
The red line stays at 8 hours which shows him within the time boundary even
though he exceeds his availability.

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Kevin --

Microsoft Project 2007 determines whether a resource is overallocated by
comparing the Max. Units value with the resource's total assignment Units
value in ANY time. The software checks for overallocations down to the
15-minute time period. If you accidentally assign a resource to work
full-time (100% Units) on two parallel tasks with a Duration of 15 minutes
each, then the resource is overallocated. The system calculates the total
assignment Units at 200% for that one little 15-minute time period. So, I
think it is best to analyze overallocations in the Resource Usage view in
Microsoft Project 2007 for one or more projects. Using that view, you can
zoom the timescale up or down to analyze overallocations at whatever level
is important to you. For most of us, we should worry about overallocations
on a daily or weekly basis, but we should probably NEVER concern ourselves
with overallocations that are at the hourly, half-hourly, or 15 minute
basis. Hope this helps.