Resource Availability

[Silverado966]

I just started using Microsoft Project 2000 and I need to know how to put in a set amount of hours of work, over my choice of days, with the utilization of the resource at 50%.

I don't want it to calculate how many days or how many hours it is going to take, I want to be able to SAY how many hours over my amount of days.

EX:
Paul can only work on this project 50% of his time. A certain task is going to take 48 hours, but over the course of 3 weeks. While he is doing this task, he will be doing other tasks from the same project.

Is that at all possibe to do with keeping his utilization at 50%?

 

[Silverado966]

Ignore that up there ^, it didn't come out as planned and I hardly know what I am talking about.
Let me try this again.

I want to be able to set the amount of hours it takes for a task to be completed, without having Project change the dates.

Let's say Paul will be working on a task of 8 hours, with 50% utilization. Instead of having Project tell me that it is going to take 2 working days, I want to be able to change it to how ever many working days I want because Paul will be working on other tasks on the same day.

Does that make any sense at all?

 

[PDQBach]

It makes absolutely no sense at all.

Your question suggests that you want to put a resource at 50%, set the amount of work and then set the duration.

You will continue asking unanswerable questions until you understand that Work = Units * Duration. If you set the task as fixed work and change the units then you will alter the duration. It's an equation; you can't arbitrarily set all three elements into an inequality.

If you don't see your problem then stick to Excel.

 

[Silverado966]

ok, thanks. I figured it out from your equation explanation.