Automatic split of a task

[Cosmin]

Hi,

I work in a programming environment and I need to now if the following is
possible:

1. at the beginning of each month (roughly) each programmer receives his/her
tasks for the month; normally (95% of the cases) these tasks should be
followed sequentially;
2. sometimes, during the month a new "super urgent" task appears that needs
immediate attention - meaning that you have to leave what you are working at
that moment and start the new task;

Now, every programmer has a project plan with his/her tasks, % complete, etc.

What I was trying to do (and didn't succed till now) was to create something
like a "prioritization" - when an "super urgent" task appears to add it in
the project plan for that day and, automatically, the actual task (meaning
the one that I interrupt for the moment) to split, giving me room for the
"super urgent" task.

Please let me know if such a thing may be possible in MS Project 2003.

THX

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

Resource leveling does that perfectly.
I have a customer where the software help desk people are planned like that.
HTH

 

[Cosmin]

THX Jan, but... it's not working as I want to (I tried it before my first
post).

What I want to do in fact is the following, eg.:
- you have 1 task - T1 - for the entire day (meaning 8 hrs);
- another task - T2 (2hrs) - shows up as very urgent and now I have to add
this task in my .mpp;
- first I had my task for 8hrs during the day and now I have T1 for 4hrs,
then T2 for 2hrs, again T1 for 4hrs.

What I want to be shown automatically when I enter T2 in my plan is
something like that (sorry for my pathetic try of replacing graphics with
letters ):

T1 xxxx...xxxx
T2 xx

It's easy for me as a guy that plays a lot with project plans to do it, but
I don't want to put another task on my programmers to learn to work with MPP.

THX a lot