Gantt Chart different than Resource Usage

[Keith Loewen]

I have a project in MS Project 2002 with 41 tasks, using 4 resources at 70%
to 80%. All tasks are fixed work. I did not link all tasks as some do not
have dependencies. I did link some as finish-to-finish. Earlier I had a
problem with leveling due to the fact that I had some summary tasks linked,
but I got rid of that problem with some help from some people on this
discussion group. Since then, I've applied Service Pack 1 and changed some
of the hours of work for some of the tasks and now I have a real mess! The
tasks where I changed the work appear correctly on the Gantt Chart, but are
duplicated on the Resource Usage chart with both the old and new hours and
have work assigned to both. Also, the dates for some tasks appear
differently on the Gantt Chart than what they do on Resource Usage. I have a
shared resource pool, but am the only person using it and currently am using
it for only one project. Any ideas?

 

[Brian K - Project MVP]

I have a project in MS Project 2002 with 41 tasks, using 4 resources
at 70% to 80%. All tasks are fixed work. I did not link all tasks as
some do not have dependencies. I did link some as finish-to-finish.
Earlier I had a problem with leveling due to the fact that I had some
summary tasks linked, but I got rid of that problem with some help
from some people on this discussion group. Since then, I've applied
Service Pack 1 and changed some of the hours of work for some of the
tasks and now I have a real mess! The tasks where I changed the work
appear correctly on the Gantt Chart, but are duplicated on the
Resource Usage chart with both the old and new hours and have work
assigned to both. Also, the dates for some tasks appear differently
on the Gantt Chart than what they do on Resource Usage. I have a
shared resource pool, but am the only person using it and currently
am using it for only one project. Any ideas?

In the resource usage view the line where you see the task name is
showing just the assignment of a single resource to that task name.
That line is not really the whole task but just one assignment. So the
data in that line may not be the same as the Gantt chart if that task
has more than one resource assigned.

 

[Keith Loewen]

Thanks for your response - each task has only one resource assigned.