Assigning a resource to an in-progress task after another task completes

[Andy Lenik]

Hi All

Can anyone tell me how I can assign a resource to a task that another
resource is already working on, after the first resource has completed
their first task?

E.g.

Task 1 is 5 days' effort.
Task 2 is 10 days' effort.
Resource A begins work on task 1, and at the same time resource B
begins work on task 2.

At the moment the duration of task 2 will be 10 days.

What I want to say is that on completion of task 1 resource A is free
to work on task 2 with resource B... so really (unless task 1 takes
longer than expected) the duration of task 2 should be 7½ days.


Any ideas? I didn't want to assign resource A to task 2 as a lower %
of the work, as I want to say that they are working on these tasks
100% of their time - and also benefit from the fact that task 1 could
finish early / late and for the duration of task 2 to reflect the
changes.

Thanks in advance, Andy.

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Andy,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

I don't know an automatic way of doing this, but you could enter Resource
A's work on Task 2 in the Resource Usage View.

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: <http://www.mvps.org/project/>

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP

 

[Andy Lenik]

Hi Mike, and thanks for the welcome and the response.

Yes, I realised that the resource usage view can help me here (after
posting this thread!) but as you have said, it's not automated and if
anything changes you'd have to go back in and do the manual updates
(and all the calculations yourself).
So, if anyone else has any ideas I'd really appreciate them.

Andy.