B
Bart Stevens
I am developing a very basic "Road map" of initatives for budgetary
discussions for the coming year, and we are interested in determining
possible scheduling scenarios with these 26 intitatives (read:
projects). My problem is as follows:
1.) There are 26 projects in the road map
2.) Each project has three phases
3.) Each phase may call on up to a dozen teams (which I have
structured as single resources with max units corresponding to number
of individuals) for varying degrees of work. Projects never have equal
amounts of work across phases.
4.) Phases within a project need to remain together- with no slack/lag
in between. For instance, a project with three phases of a month
always needs to stay at three months duration:
Budget 2005
-> Project 1
-> Phase 1
-> Phase 2
-> Phase 3
-> Project 2
....
Our goal is to level resources at the project level, which is a
summary of the three phases. However, when I use the level resources
wizard, and an overallocation occurs at the phase level, it levels at
the phase level. Therefore, a project that must have a duration of,
say, 80 days, blows out to 120 days after resource leveling. Lag
between phases is 40 days in this case
In the case that phase resource requirements in separate projects
cause overallocation, I would like the entire project to move (delay),
but stay at the same duration. I need lag to be 0 days between all
phases, and project durations to stay at, say, 80 days.
Ex: If Project 1 and Project 2 are scheduled to start on 1/1/05, with
three phases of one month in each (for a project total of 90 days),
and there is an overallocation in the SECOND phase of each, I need
Project 2 to start on 2/1/05- instead of still starting on 1/1/05,
with a one month lag/gap between phase 1 and 2 or Project 2. Is this
possible?
discussions for the coming year, and we are interested in determining
possible scheduling scenarios with these 26 intitatives (read:
projects). My problem is as follows:
1.) There are 26 projects in the road map
2.) Each project has three phases
3.) Each phase may call on up to a dozen teams (which I have
structured as single resources with max units corresponding to number
of individuals) for varying degrees of work. Projects never have equal
amounts of work across phases.
4.) Phases within a project need to remain together- with no slack/lag
in between. For instance, a project with three phases of a month
always needs to stay at three months duration:
Budget 2005
-> Project 1
-> Phase 1
-> Phase 2
-> Phase 3
-> Project 2
....
Our goal is to level resources at the project level, which is a
summary of the three phases. However, when I use the level resources
wizard, and an overallocation occurs at the phase level, it levels at
the phase level. Therefore, a project that must have a duration of,
say, 80 days, blows out to 120 days after resource leveling. Lag
between phases is 40 days in this case
In the case that phase resource requirements in separate projects
cause overallocation, I would like the entire project to move (delay),
but stay at the same duration. I need lag to be 0 days between all
phases, and project durations to stay at, say, 80 days.
Ex: If Project 1 and Project 2 are scheduled to start on 1/1/05, with
three phases of one month in each (for a project total of 90 days),
and there is an overallocation in the SECOND phase of each, I need
Project 2 to start on 2/1/05- instead of still starting on 1/1/05,
with a one month lag/gap between phase 1 and 2 or Project 2. Is this
possible?