Anyone manage large schedule? What is best way to set up and manag

[Bud]

Hello

I am inheriting a rather large schedule thousands of tasks and a large
number of resources 150+. It's only been up and running for about 6 weeks.....

This schedule currently is missing a few pred/succ, has many resources
concurrently scheduled half of which are greater than 5tasks being done at a
time and it is set up as fixed work. Many overallocations right now.

I think I need to do the following

1. Get the pred/succ in line so they make sense
2. Look into all this concurrent scheduling and reduce it down drastically
to where people are working on 3 or less tasks concurrently at any given time.
3. Perhaps change from fixed work to fixed units. Am thinking this because
that way I don't have to concern myslef to much with units moving. I have a
baseline.

Do you agree with this changing to fixed units or doesn't it matter?

4. Use the Resource leveling to manage overallocations but do it on a month
to month basis. seems to help with not moving out the end date as much.

Do you agree with the above 4 items?

Is there any views/filters at all that will help with managing the
overallocation?

Is there any views/filters that would help in limiting like the resource
usage view to resources that have many tasks assigned concurrently and not
show the rest?

Is there anything else views/filters or anything that would assist in
managing a very large schedule?

Thanks

 

[Bud]

How do I send it to you

Thanks

It is almost impossible to provide good advice about this without seeing the
project plan.
So many things could be wrong that you haven't mentioned.
If it is a real, big project and 6 weeks in, you need to jump on the
problems now so that it does not all come unraveled.
Can you send it to me?
--
Trevor Rabey
0407213955
61 8 92727485
PERFECT PROJECT PLANNING
www.perfectproject.com.au

 

[Bud]

Could you provide some general guidance and would you mind so much answering
the questions I had

Thanks

 

[amakar]

If your project schedule has only been running for 6 weeks, you may wan
to consider resource leveling, assessing the project baseline an
possibly rebaselining. This will at least give you a more realisti
schedule

My approach to resource leveling has always been to manually level eac
resource on the plan. The algorithm used in automatic leveling wil
extend your date beyond a realistic date. You can manually resourc
level by filtering on a given resource, identify overallocated tasks
and simply add additional task predecessors

Hope that helps