How not to "split" summary task

[eitan]

Hi,

I'm quite new to MS Project, and I use MS Project 2007.
Say I have a set of several summary tasks, each with a few subtasks
for example - each feature implementation has its usual
design-coding-test subtasks.
My problem is that after assigning resources to the tasks, th
application sometimes "splits" between the subtasks of the same summar
task. I'll elaborate:
Say I have feature1 with its 3 subtasks and feature2 with its
subtasks, and other features. I assign feature1's subtasks wit
resource1 and feature2's subtasks with resource2. Now I assign resource
and 2 to the other features. The MS-Project might (after levelin
resources) squeeze feature4 between 2 subtasks of feature1. I don't wan
this to happen as I'd like to treat this summary task as a singl
development unit.

I can I resolve this

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

For resource leveling, select Priority, Standard as the leveling order.
Now assign (very) different priorities to the tasks in Summary 1 vs Summary
2 vs Summary 3...

HTH

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[eitan]

I will try this, thank you very much