Overallocated or Not?

[Mike]

Hi,

I've been reading some older posts to understand why I'm seeing an
overallocated resource in the Resource Graph but not in the hours of Work;
it's not quite clear to me yet...

My resource is set at Max Units of 50% and, over the course of a couple of
weeks, he has work scheduled for 4 hours or less each day (this makes sense
at 50% availability). However, the graph shows percentages on some of the
days far above 50%, e.g. one day shows 3.85 hours of Work as taking 88% of
the resource's availability.

Leveling is set to Hour-by-Hour and from what I've read so far, the resource
probably has some tasks overlapping by at least a minute since leveling by
Minute-by-Minute clears the overallocation. Am I on track here so far?

Should I leave leveling at Minute-by-Minute? Are there reasons I shouldn't
go to that much resolution?

These overallocations occur as I'm entering the Actual Work values each week
after which Project levels the tasks. Thanks.

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

Resource graph standard shows Peak Units.
Right Click on the graphical part select Work or Percent allocation.
Find the explanation on why this is overallocated in
http://www.mvps.org/faqs.htm
Faq 34. Overallocation occurs in less than one day

Aren't YOU overallocated when you have two meetings scheduled 9-10 a.m. even
if nothing else to do the rest of the day? This sets your peak units to 200!

Greetings,

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