Resource leveling constrians

[Stefan Hovens]

Dear reader,

When I use resource leveling by default the box: "Level only within
available slack" is disabled. In this way you can get better leveling, in
theory even a 100%.
I suppose the more delay MS is putting on the total project duration, the
better the leveling will be until a maximum.

As a project manager you would like to see what a delay will do with your
leveling. So you would like to be able to have a graphs that sets out the
leveling against te total delay of the project. I suppose MP chooses
automaticly a value that is on this graph.

Can you make such a graph quickly?
How does MP determens this value?

All answers and quistons are welcome.

Greetings,

Stefan Hovens

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

Project does not a priori select a delay.
It delays tasks when a resource is overallocated, only the delay necessary
to solve the overallocation.
And except for some exceptions Leveling simply can't resolve, leveling is
always "100%"

As for visualizing delay caused by leveling, you can create a bar running
from Preleveled Start to Start, or show the Preleveled Start field in the
Gantt Chart Table.
Note that if you work with preleveled Start you have to explicitly do Clear
Leveling between 2 Level Now actions.

Hope this helps,