gregsedwards
Instructor
In a Project file, suppose I have three tasks, a, b and c. These tasks are fixed units and effort driven. "Me" is working 25% on each of these tasks. I have "Me" set as only 50% maximum availability.
At first, "Me" is overallocated (75% versus 50%). When I level the resources, task c is pushed out past a and b. This makes sense. The combination of a and b gives us 50%, which is the maximum "Me" is allowed. Now, suppose I change "Me" to have a 40% maximum allocation. When I level the resources, the three tasks are spread out so that none of them are being worked at the same time. I see the logic. Project thinks that "Me" can't work on both tasks at the same time because that would cause a 50% workload, which is now considered overallocated.
However, I would like for Project to take the extra 15% (40%-25%) and go ahead and use that to work on task B. The way it works now, the project plan says the end date is much later than it actually would be.
The only thing I know to do is to manually change "Me" to 15% on task B and relevel. This works, but when you have a project plan that has several hundred tasks with the same resources working on several at the same time, the math gets complicated if not impossible. Do you know of a way around this?
At first, "Me" is overallocated (75% versus 50%). When I level the resources, task c is pushed out past a and b. This makes sense. The combination of a and b gives us 50%, which is the maximum "Me" is allowed. Now, suppose I change "Me" to have a 40% maximum allocation. When I level the resources, the three tasks are spread out so that none of them are being worked at the same time. I see the logic. Project thinks that "Me" can't work on both tasks at the same time because that would cause a 50% workload, which is now considered overallocated.
However, I would like for Project to take the extra 15% (40%-25%) and go ahead and use that to work on task B. The way it works now, the project plan says the end date is much later than it actually would be.
The only thing I know to do is to manually change "Me" to 15% on task B and relevel. This works, but when you have a project plan that has several hundred tasks with the same resources working on several at the same time, the math gets complicated if not impossible. Do you know of a way around this?