Enterprise Calendars

[ProjectAnalyst]

We have used a 7 hour per day calendar to reflect that resources don't
actually work 8 hours on a project.

We'd like to refine that to having an 8 hour per day calendar and more
carefully assign and manage the resources.

My thoughts are:
1. Simply take the existing calendar and add an hour to each day.
2. Create a new calendar with 8 hours per day and assign all resources and
new projects to it.

Anybody have any warnings or better ideas? Thanks.

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi ?,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

If your resources only work 7 hours per day, then that is the calendar you
should use. Applying an 8-hour per day calendar to 7-hour per day resources
will give you lots of problems, as assigning such a resource to a 1 day task
will take 1 day and 1 hour in the next day to complete.

You might like to see FAQ Item: 5. Default Working Hours

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on

Mike Glen
Project MVP
See http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc for my free Project Tutorials

 

[Dave]

We have used a 7 hour per day calendar to reflect that resources don't
actually work 8 hours on a project.

We'd like to refine that to having an 8 hour per day calendar and more
carefully assign and manage the resources.

My thoughts are:
1. Simply take the existing calendar and add an hour to each day.
2. Create a new calendar with 8 hours per day and assign all resources and
new projects to it.

Anybody have any warnings or better ideas? Thanks.

There is only really any point to doing this if you are using Project
Server or a resource pool.

As things are, the time spent by your resources working on the project
is accurately modelled. If you, as an enterprise, want to capture what
they do outside the Project, then making the calendar more reflective of
the resources' working hours is the way to go, but only in that scenario.