Resource Overallocation

[Mystikkid]

I have been working and reworking the schedule in MS Project 2003 all week. I
am teaching myself as I go. I am having problems with assigning resources to
tasks. I assigned all the resources to tasks and was over allocated so I
removed them and started over and over and over. I am working with one
resource at a time now to understand how this is happening. The one resource
is over allocated with 2 one minute tasks on one day. The calendar is sent
up for an 8 hour work day. I am not sure how to fix this.

 

[JulieS]

Hello Mystikkid,

The problem is both of your one minute tasks are scheduled for the
exact same time. When you assign the same resource at 100% to the
two one minute tasks, the number of assignment units for the
resource are 200%. If you level the resource with "minute by
minute" settings, you'll see one of the 1 minute tasks get delayed.

See FAQ 34 at http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm for further details.

You may find it very helpful to change the way dates are display to
show time as well. Go to Tools> Options, View tab and select a date
format that shows time as well as date info.

I hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie
Project MVP

Visit http://project.mvps.org/ for the FAQs and additional
information about Microsoft Project

 

[Mystikkid]

Thank Julie. I will work on the schedule. Your explanation makes sense. If
I have any additional questions I will post them.

 

[JulieS]

You're welcome. Glad to have helped and thanks for the feedback.
Do post back with any further questions. As you're new to Project,
I suggest having a read of fellow MVP Mike Glen's series of
tutorials on MS Project. You can find them through:

http://project.mvps.org/mike's_tutorials.htm

Julie