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Earl Forrence
My PM's seem to be having a problem with contours that is
perplexing me as well.
They've defined tasks over a year's period that are meant
to simply capture the amount of time that their people
perform Continuing Engineering (CE or bug fixing). Since
the budget calls for about 30% CE for the year, the
resources are simply assigned to the CE task at 30%.
Now, if one of the resources spends more than 30% of their
time, then we see an adjustment in the total percentage of
time allocation for the whole task that is reflective of
the maximm % used.
Now, I DO KNOW that MS-P is designed to do that. I don't
especially like it; but that's NOT my problem.
What we are also seeing -- and what the problem is -- is
that the resource's contour for the task is automatically
changed from flat to front-end loaded (althought the icon
of the resource sheet is the one that indicates "The work
assignment is distributed using an edited contour").
This troublesome & weekly anomoly produces resource
allocations in excess of 100% for that task alone -- with
total draws on the resource often above 300% when a total
consolidated Resource View is analyzed.
That is, the automatically assigned contours in many tasks
in many plans causes the current and next few weeks to
have a total draw of up to 136.63 hours per week on a
single resource.
That's nice for the schedule, but I'd expect you would
agree that it's hardly realistic.
What kind of anomoly am I running into here? Any help for
me and mine??
If nothing else, what I'd like to be able to do is turn
off the automatic changing-of-contour feature once the
plan has been Baselined and Published.
Any hope?
Thanks ... Earl
perplexing me as well.
They've defined tasks over a year's period that are meant
to simply capture the amount of time that their people
perform Continuing Engineering (CE or bug fixing). Since
the budget calls for about 30% CE for the year, the
resources are simply assigned to the CE task at 30%.
Now, if one of the resources spends more than 30% of their
time, then we see an adjustment in the total percentage of
time allocation for the whole task that is reflective of
the maximm % used.
Now, I DO KNOW that MS-P is designed to do that. I don't
especially like it; but that's NOT my problem.
What we are also seeing -- and what the problem is -- is
that the resource's contour for the task is automatically
changed from flat to front-end loaded (althought the icon
of the resource sheet is the one that indicates "The work
assignment is distributed using an edited contour").
This troublesome & weekly anomoly produces resource
allocations in excess of 100% for that task alone -- with
total draws on the resource often above 300% when a total
consolidated Resource View is analyzed.
That is, the automatically assigned contours in many tasks
in many plans causes the current and next few weeks to
have a total draw of up to 136.63 hours per week on a
single resource.
That's nice for the schedule, but I'd expect you would
agree that it's hardly realistic.
What kind of anomoly am I running into here? Any help for
me and mine??
If nothing else, what I'd like to be able to do is turn
off the automatic changing-of-contour feature once the
plan has been Baselined and Published.
Any hope?
Thanks ... Earl