Project not scheduling full hours on first day of tasks 1

[cdck]

I am working with a user who has set up a project using generic resources. (Our company is not structured to effectively use Project to manage employee time - these resources are departments instead of people.)

The standard calendar has been adjusted to show our normal work-week, which is 9/80. This means 9hrs/day M-Th, then 8hrs/day alternate Fridays. Fridays off have been marked as non-working time.

Tasks have been input with a resource and estimated time to complete. Resources are things like "Mechanical" or "Optics" with their availability set to 100%.

If you go to the resource usage view, you see that for every task, Project is assigning 1 hour less than the work day allows on the first day of the task (which ripples through until the project is several days later than it should be at completion); after that, it works correctly. If, however, a task is input with a constraint that it must start on a specific day, it uses that full day from the start.

What is going on here?

Cheryl dc Kern

 

[PDQBach]

Hmmm ... I think is too complicated an issue for me to suggest something, you try and report back, I suggest something else, you try it ...

Please sanitize the project:

View | Gantt, insert the column "Unique ID", copy the Unique ID column and paste it over the Task Name column.

View | Resource sheet, repeat that process.

Then send it to me at pdqbach4100 at H0TMAIL.COM. I'll see if there's anything that catches my eye.

btw ... what version of Project are you using?

 

[PDQBach]

After looking at the schedule the way to fix the problem was:

1. Tools | Options | View-tab and set Date Format to one of the formats that shows the time.

2. Project | Project Information... and then edit the Start Date field (which shows the time because of step 1) so that the default start of the project was changed from 8:00AM to 7:00AM.