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Message: [QUOTE="Dale Howard [MVP], post: 5002179"] Mike -- Although your customer's intention to do capacity planning is a very good thing, it is being subverted by how your PMs assign resources to tasks. If a resource is only going to work part-time on a task, the PM must ALWAYS assign the resource at Units less than 100%, reflecting the percentage of their work day they will actually commit to the task. For example, if I have a Fixed Duration task with a Duration of 5 days, and I need a resource to work 10 hours over those 5 days, I need to assign the resource at 25% Units. When I do so, other PMs will be able to see a "pocket" of Remaining Availability of 6 hours per day over those 5 days. So, your client's current practice is simply unacceptable in a Project Server 2007 environment, as they are purposely and willfully overallocating resources. Hope this helps. [/QUOTE]