changing calender

[karishma]

i am working on MSP 2003. i have prepared my planning with standard calender
and default timimgs. but now i would like to change the hours per day and
hrs. pre week. there are around 40 resurces working on the project. i want 20
of them to work in morning shift and other 20 to work in noon shift.

so do i have to change calender to 24-hrs shift? do i have to enter
nondefault time as 5am to 1:30 pm and 2pm to 10:30 pm, both with 1 our break.
so for this i have man-hrs as 40resources*16 hrs=640hrs work. (am i correct
or have i some misinterpritation?

does it going to change the durations for the tasks?



help will be appreciated

 

[Rod Gill]

HI,

Create one calendar for each shift. View the Resource sheet and set the Base
calendar for all morning shift people to the morning base calendar. Ditto
for pm staff.

This won't change durations, but if the calendars are not 8h/d then the
dates will change.

--

Rod Gill
Microsoft MVP for Project

Author of the only book on Project VBA, see:
http://www.projectvbabook.com

 

[karishma]

hi

Thanks for your answer, but still confused.

i have kept the default standard calender as it is and created an additional
calender as"morning shift" calender with timiings 5am to 1:30 pm.

now from a resource sheet view i hahe changed the asiignment units as 900%
as there are 9 engineers are workiing on different subtasks of the same
summary tasks. now to assign a morning shift claender to them,
resource informarion menu--working time tab- claender (morning shift).

but it has reduced the duraiton for all subtasks. so what can be the problem?

again for the other summary task i want to assign a design engineers group
to perform all subtasks. but the resources under this group are going to work
in noon shift and are different from the previous one. so do i have to
create a "pm shift" calender? and if yes how do i assign different calenders
to the same group (design engineers)?

hope it is not confusing to you

thanks

 

[Rod Gill]

Yes you need a different calendar for pm shift. You assign calendars to
individual resources so you need an engineers group for am and one for pm at
450% each (or 400 and 500)

--

Rod Gill
Microsoft MVP for Project

Author of the only book on Project VBA, see:
http://www.projectvbabook.com

 

[Steve House]

You have to make a global choice - you either track and assign your
engineers as two aggregate names, "Design Engineers - Morning Shift" and
"Design Engineers - Afternoon Shift," with appropriate maximum assignment
units reflecting number of engineers in each group, or you track the
engineers as individual people. If you choose the former, an individual
must NOT be included in both groups - if you have a total of 9 engineers,
you might have 4 in the morning group and 5 in the afternoon group but there
can't be any overlap - each engineer is included in the count of one or the
other group but none of them can be counted in both. Similarly, if you list
"Joe Engineer" as an individual you cannot also include him in the count of
resources in either of those aggregates. When you assign them to the task
you need to decide how many out of each group to assign - if you assign from
only one group, the task will only be scheduled during the time that group
is working.

You should never, ever, assign resources to summary tasks - summaries are
simply roll-ups of the subtasks. All resource assignments should on the
detail activity performance tasks only.

If you want two guys to be working on a certain task in the morning and
three on the same task in the afternoon, you would have two resource names
listed on the , "Morning Engineers - 200%" and "Afternoon Engineers - 300%",
you cannot just list "Engineers - 500%."