Levelling - Resources on multiple tasks at the same time

[ronmcfarlane]

I have schedule two tasks

Task a is a support task where I want to put aside 25% of a persons
time to through out the project to assist others.

Task b is a real task. Lets say there is 5 days effot in the task

Lets say they are both starting on the first day of the project
(Monday)

When I add them project assigns 2 hours per day on task a and 5 days of
8 hours on task b both starting on the same day.

There is an overallocation in the first week.
When I level, project moves task b to commence at the end of task a.

I want task b to be allocated 6 hours per day finishing the following
Tuesday.

How can I set it up to do this.

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

To be frank, the answer to your question is "Manually".
Leveling does not change allocation percentages.
One gets by far the best results by allocating Resources 100% to each task
and let leveling sequence them.
From a project management point of view, Theory of Constraints clearly shows
this also is the most effiient way of working.
Hope this helps.

 

[Joe]

Try this:

Set the priority of the support task (task a) to 1000 (no leveling). Set
the allocation of the task for task b to 75%, then level. I think this will
work, try it and see.

Joe

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Have you tried it?
It doesn't work when the granumarity is "day by day", sorry.

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Sorry, I overlooked the setting at 75%.
This will work because there is no longer an overallocation between teh
tasks.
Sorry for my previous post

 

[Joe]

No Problem Jan,

I know you are an expert in Resource Leveling, so I value your input on
this. Could you explain how the "Look for over allocations on a (“Fill in
the blankâ€) basis" works?

Does this mean that is I choose “Week by Week†that only if a task is
resource is over-allocated by more than 40 hours for the week, it will level?
I am not sure I understand how the "Minute by Minute" option would work.

Thanks,
Joe

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

Your assumption on week by week is exact.
Minute by minute is minute-te by minute - you are aware aren't you that
Project stores every date, every duration, every amount of work in tenths of
minutes?
To complete the thought - after leveling minute by minute no resource should
be "Red" any more.
HTH