RDS design said:
John,
I have 30 projects for 2006, and 6 staff members that will be assigned
different tasks on each project. I want to look at the year and see where I
have staff bottle necks. I downloaded the templet for"Deployment project plan
for Microsoft Office".
and listed each project as a task, with the assignments of each project in
that task.
The reports do not give me the over all picture I'm looking for. Is there a
better way do do what I need?
RDS,
I'm not familiar with the templet (template) you reference so I don't
know if it is appropriate or not for what you want to do. However from
what you describe I suggest one of two approaches. If each of the 30
projects is relatively small (i.e. 100 tasks or less), you might simply
want to put them all in a single Project file, enter your 6 staff
members on the Resource Sheet and once the resources are assigned to the
tasks you will be all set to review staff loading in a variety of ways.
If on the other hand, each of your 30 projects has more than 100 tasks,
you would probably be better to set up each project as its own Project
file. Then create a master file that combines the content of the
individual files into one single viewing file. Your 6 staff members
could be on the master Resource Sheet or they could be put into a
separate resource pool file.
Hope this helps.
John
Project MVP
