Overallocated resource under 8 hours

[Burnley01]

I have a resource in two seperate plans - both tasks are under 8 hours in
total and the resource usage shows it in RED.
I understand for small tasks to change the start and finish times so they
don't overlap from the default of 08:00.
In this case though I have resource doing long tasks in two seperate projects.
I can see them at 7.6 hours in Red - but the tasks are months long - and you
cannot change the start time of one particular day during this task.

Any ideas how to rectify this?

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Burnley01 --

One of the leveling actions I occasionally recommend is to "live in the red"
instead of attempting to level the overallocation. What I mean by this is
that if a resource is shown as overallocated with the total Work hours each
day at 8 hours of less, and the resource is available to work 8 hours each
day, then I recommend that you don't bother with attempting to level that
type of overallocation. To level this type of overallocation is way too
much work and not worth the bother, in my opinion. Thus, I recommend that
you "live in the red" and ignore the overallocation. Hope this helps.

 

[Rod Gill]

I go one step further than my friend Dale. I level only to the number of
available hours per week. So if a Resource can work 20h on my project for a
week and there is only 20h (plus or minus one or two) then I move on.

--

Rod Gill
Microsoft MVP for Project

Author of the only book on Project VBA, see:
http://www.projectvbabook.com

Burnley01 --

One of the leveling actions I occasionally recommend is to "live in the
red" instead of attempting to level the overallocation. What I mean by
this is that if a resource is shown as overallocated with the total Work
hours each day at 8 hours of less, and the resource is available to work 8
hours each day, then I recommend that you don't bother with attempting to
level that type of overallocation. To level this type of overallocation
is way too much work and not worth the bother, in my opinion. Thus, I
recommend that you "live in the red" and ignore the overallocation. Hope
this helps.







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