Adjusting quantity of hours available for a resource

[jonnycinco]

Instead of having resources be individual personnel, I am trying to se
Project up to be a group of people (for a fabrication shop). So, I hav
X department and Y department.

X department can work 40 hours per day
Y department can work 60 hours per day

1) is there anywhere to change the quantity of hours available to wor
per day?

2) is there a way to have MSP'07 not allow an over allocation of th
set hours? (or at least change the colors on the ghant chart if there i
an over-allocation?

thank

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

To your first question: Yes. In the resource sheet, set max units=available
number of hours per day / working time per day.
To your second question: No not directly.
Still
a) you can ask Project to shift tasks till the overallocation is resolved.
This is called Resource Leveling.
b) Overallocations are shown as "red" in RESOURCE VIEWS because resources
are overallocated and tasks aren't
c) once you identify the overallocated resources you can filter your tak
view to show the tasks of overallocated resouce only.

Hope this helps,

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[jonnycinco]

Awesome, I didn't think about going over 100%!

 

[Steve House]

Let's clarify - your department X can't work 40 hours in a 24 hour day,
"hours" in that context is time and there are only 24 hours in a day. But 5
people, each working an 8 hour shift, can do 40 man-hours of work during the
course of an 8 hour day. Department X's working time calendar is 8 hours
but the 5 people in it have a combined maximum availability of 500%. I wish
we had chosen some unit other than "hours" to measure work effort because is
is easy to confuse "hours" (time-unit) and "hours" (sweat unit).