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Carolyn in Fredericton NB
Good Day
I am seeing results in Project 2003 that I had not expected when trying to
allocate generic resources to tasks.
A bit of background first
The project that I am on is using an iterative approach, and future releases
are planned at increasingly higher level of detail depending on how far out
it is.
I know for Release x, I have 3 streams of work, with a set group of
developers for each stream; 3 in streams 1 and 3, and 5 developers in Stream
2. I also know at a high level task level how much work we have for each of
the 3 streams; eg, 500 hours development work for Stream 1, 900 hours for
Stream 2 and 550 for Stream 3. I added 3 generic resources (Stream 1, Stream
2, and Stream 3 with resource availability units of 300%, 500% and 300%
respectively). I assigned the resources to the tasks, but Project is only
assigning the work at 100%. I would not think that I would have also have to
change the resource assignment in the actual task to pick up either 300% or
500% according to the stream it is associated with? When I have multiple
tasks that I assign a group to, it seems to allocate up to the percentage
expected, but not when I allocate a group to 1 task - it is like it does not
want to allocate the task across multiple resources. I am just wondering if
having a generic resource showing as 300% available and then going into the
task itself and switching to 300% will cause a problem? I am just trying at
this point to get a view to end dates on releases based on large chunks of
work taht have not been broken down into more detailed tasks yet.
I am seeing results in Project 2003 that I had not expected when trying to
allocate generic resources to tasks.
A bit of background first
The project that I am on is using an iterative approach, and future releases
are planned at increasingly higher level of detail depending on how far out
it is.
I know for Release x, I have 3 streams of work, with a set group of
developers for each stream; 3 in streams 1 and 3, and 5 developers in Stream
2. I also know at a high level task level how much work we have for each of
the 3 streams; eg, 500 hours development work for Stream 1, 900 hours for
Stream 2 and 550 for Stream 3. I added 3 generic resources (Stream 1, Stream
2, and Stream 3 with resource availability units of 300%, 500% and 300%
respectively). I assigned the resources to the tasks, but Project is only
assigning the work at 100%. I would not think that I would have also have to
change the resource assignment in the actual task to pick up either 300% or
500% according to the stream it is associated with? When I have multiple
tasks that I assign a group to, it seems to allocate up to the percentage
expected, but not when I allocate a group to 1 task - it is like it does not
want to allocate the task across multiple resources. I am just wondering if
having a generic resource showing as 300% available and then going into the
task itself and switching to 300% will cause a problem? I am just trying at
this point to get a view to end dates on releases based on large chunks of
work taht have not been broken down into more detailed tasks yet.
