How about assigning overtime to tasks where appropriate in order to shorten
them and not worry about changing calendars to micromanage when the
resources actually do the overtime work, letting them and their supervisors
work out the details? That way you can be sure those expensive weekend
hours are used for critical tasks and not wasted on non-critical tasks whose
shortening will have no impact on the completion date. If you have a 5 day
(40 hour) duration task with a resource assigned 100%, that's 40 man-hours
of work. If you split the screen and use the Resource Work form to enter
the fact that you expect 8 hours of that to be done as overtime, a total of
40 hours of work will still be done, 32 hours during calendar working time
hours and 8 hours at some indeterminate time outside of calendar work hours
and the task's duration will drop to 4 days, just the result you say you
need. You won't know exactly WHEN the resource will choose to do the 8
hours of overtime but do you really need to, as long as it's done sometime
between when the task is scheduled to begin and when you need to have it
done by? In my example, should it really matter to the project manager if
the resource does the overtime by working a 16 hour day the first day or 16
hours the second or 10 hours a day for all 4 days, as long as it works out
that 32 hours is done during regularly scheduled working time and a total of
8 hours is done at some other time(s)?
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Ken said:
I manage a schedule that is 1/2 complete. We need to add weekend days to
finish on time. I do not wish to globally change to add weekend days to
completed tasks, only to future tasks. How is this done?
