19 working days for a month

[Syed Ali Abid]

Hello All,

I want to set 19 working days for my development resources and 22 working
days for all other resources. One way to do it is to create a 19 days
calendar for development resource and assign it to development resources
while other resources should be assigned to Standard calendar.

Is there any other way to do it?

Thanks in advance.

Ali Abid

 

[Steve House]

Be careful where you're making the settings. The "Day Per Month" field on
the 'Calendar Option' pages is a global setting at the project level and
cannot be individualized to resources in the project. In any case, it does
not control the calendars in any way but rather serves as a conversion
factor for duration units, so that when you say a duration is 'XX months'
Project can correctly convert that into the minutes of duration it uses for
all its calculations. All adjustments to the actual working time calendar
must be done on a day by day level, specifying which days are working and
which are not. Since months are varying in length, there's no way to ever
say and individual resource has, say 19 working days in each and every
month. Let's say the resource works Mon thru Fri. Some months he'll work
20, others will be a day more or a day less, it all depends on whether the
month has 30 days or 31 (or 28 or 29) and on what day of the week the 1st of
the month happens to fall.

 

[Syed Ali Abid]

Thanks Steve for your response.

The reason I choose to put 19 days as working for a month is to avoid any
change in plan due to resources' leaves. It would be separate from 10%
project contingency. Do let me know if there is better way to do it.

Abid

Be careful where you're making the settings. The "Day Per Month" field on
the 'Calendar Option' pages is a global setting at the project level and
cannot be individualized to resources in the project. In any case, it
does not control the calendars in any way but rather serves as a
conversion factor for duration units, so that when you say a duration is
'XX months' Project can correctly convert that into the minutes of
duration it uses for all its calculations. All adjustments to the actual
working time calendar must be done on a day by day level, specifying which
days are working and which are not. Since months are varying in length,
there's no way to ever say and individual resource has, say 19 working
days in each and every month. Let's say the resource works Mon thru Fri.
Some months he'll work 20, others will be a day more or a day less, it all
depends on whether the month has 30 days or 31 (or 28 or 29) and on what
day of the week the 1st of the month happens to fall.

--
Steve House [Project MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs

Hello All,

I want to set 19 working days for my development resources and 22 working
days for all other resources. One way to do it is to create a 19 days
calendar for development resource and assign it to development resources
while other resources should be assigned to Standard calendar.

Is there any other way to do it?

Thanks in advance.

Ali Abid

 

[Steve House]

"Due to resource leaves" as in the resource is taking time off away from
work? How could that NOT affect the plan. If I'm scheduled to spend 4
weeks waxing widgets in May and once the schedule has been set I decide to
take the second week of May off, I still have to do a total of 4 weeks of
waxing widgets. The only way that can happen is if the finish extends from
the last week of May into the first week of June to make up for the time
lost due tro my holiday. IMHO the plan is not the place to try to put
adjustments and contingencies. It is a schedlue of physical activities
intended to tell the resources who needs to go where on what dates and what
they are supposed to do once they get there. It should model as closely as
possible the actual workflow and physical realities. The duration of a
task, for example, is not the time in which the resource is allowed to do
the task, it is a best guess estimate of the actual time it will take the
resource to do it from start to end. If there's an 8 msan-hour task that
begin as early as next Monday and you don't need it done before Friday,
that's not a 5-day duration task ... it's a ONE day duration task with a
deadline 5 days out.

Hope this helps
Steve House, Project. MVP

Thanks Steve for your response.

The reason I choose to put 19 days as working for a month is to avoid any
change in plan due to resources' leaves. It would be separate from 10%
project contingency. Do let me know if there is better way to do it.

Abid

Be careful where you're making the settings. The "Day Per Month" field
on the 'Calendar Option' pages is a global setting at the project level
and cannot be individualized to resources in the project. In any case,
it does not control the calendars in any way but rather serves as a
conversion factor for duration units, so that when you say a duration is
'XX months' Project can correctly convert that into the minutes of
duration it uses for all its calculations. All adjustments to the actual
working time calendar must be done on a day by day level, specifying
which days are working and which are not. Since months are varying in
length, there's no way to ever say and individual resource has, say 19
working days in each and every month. Let's say the resource works Mon
thru Fri. Some months he'll work 20, others will be a day more or a day
less, it all depends on whether the month has 30 days or 31 (or 28 or 29)
and on what day of the week the 1st of the month happens to fall.

--
Steve House [Project MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs

Hello All,

I want to set 19 working days for my development resources and 22
working days for all other resources. One way to do it is to create a 19
days calendar for development resource and assign it to development
resources while other resources should be assigned to Standard calendar.

Is there any other way to do it?

Thanks in advance.

Ali Abid