Project Server Resource Time off & Resource Scheduling

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bauer172uw

I noticed a strange quirk (not the first) with Project Server. I am using Project Professional to edit my Project file on the server. The Project is using resources from the enterprise resource pool. I entered time for resource A to not be scheduled to work. Then I assigned resource A & resource B (with normal availability) to the same task occuring when resource A is unavailable. They are both loaded at 100%. The result is that resource B does half of the total work, then stops! Resource A resumes the other half of the work after they become available. Anyone know if there is a way to change this behavior. Common sense would say that resource B would just keep working until the task is done if resource A is on vacation. Instead, the task is stretched out so the 2 resources do 1/2 the work. Thanks for any help

bauer172uw
 
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Dale Howard [MVP]

bauer172uw --

The behavior you are seeing in Microsoft Project is the default behavior of
the tool and cannot be changed. When you assigned resources A and B at 100%
Units to the task, Microsoft Project assigned each of them to perform the
same amount of Work on the task. Because you entered nonworking time on
resource A's calendar, the software assumes that resource A must perform
his/her assigned work in the next available time period after the nonworking
time period. The system will never take work away from resource A and
reassign the work to resource B, even if resource B were capable of
continuing the work in the absence of resource A. Given this fact, you must
manually reschedule the work on this task between the two resources, which
you must do by applying a work contour to the work in the Task Usage view
for this task. Hope this helps.




bauer172uw said:
I noticed a strange quirk (not the first) with Project Server. I am using
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Project Professional to edit my Project file on the server. The Project is
using resources from the enterprise resource pool. I entered time for
resource A to not be scheduled to work. Then I assigned resource A &
resource B (with normal availability) to the same task occuring when
resource A is unavailable. They are both loaded at 100%. The result is
that resource B does half of the total work, then stops! Resource A resumes
the other half of the work after they become available. Anyone know if
there is a way to change this behavior. Common sense would say that
resource B would just keep working until the task is done if resource A is
on vacation. Instead, the task is stretched out so the 2 resources do 1/2
the work. Thanks for any help
 
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