% Availability and Days per month in Tools/Options

[Steve Scott]

Situation:

I have a 100 days of Business Analyst (BA) resource in January and 120 days
in Febuary.

January has 20 working days in it and February 19 working days. In order to
understand the BA resource's availability for Jan and Feb, I have divided
100 by 20 and 120 by 19 respectively. This gives me Monthly % availibilities
of 500% and 632% respectively.

I am now creating tasks and BA assigments within January and February in
order to see if I exceed the monthly % availibilities...

Question - what bearing if at all does the Days per month figure in
Tools/Options have on what I am doing?

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

None at all.
This is only used if you want input/output labeled in months (which is very
rare) to translate this input into minutes (the internal unit of Project) or
translate the minutes into months.
HTH

 

[Steve Scott]

Thanks!

Hi,

None at all.
This is only used if you want input/output labeled in months (which is very
rare) to translate this input into minutes (the internal unit of Project) or
translate the minutes into months.
HTH

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Jan De Messemaeker
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+32-495-300 620

 

[Steve House [Project MVP]]

You might also want to remember that an availability of 100% means 1 person
working his full work schedule and doen't have anything to do with the
budgeted days available. An availability of 500% means that you have 5
people able to work on project tasks requiring their skills at any given
time and have chosen to lump them together rather than track their
assignments as named individual resources. You could assign Budget Analyst
to a 1 hour task at an assignment level of 500%, meaning that 5 analysts are
working together on the task during that 1 hour of work and so they generate
5 man-hours of work output for each hour of task duration.