Remaining Resource Allocation.

[Simon Anthony]

Newbie Question.
I've just moved from PMW where I could assign 'Remaining Resource' to a task (profiling.) This would allow me to have some support/help/interuption tasks assigned at maybe 10% of a resource utilisation and then assign 'the rest' to the real tasks in hand. In Project 2003 I seem to need to have to put in the actual % against the real tasks - 70%, 80% or 90% but this changes depending upon when the support/help/interuption tasks are running. It seems I just have to go for worst case and enter 70% but then the duration is calculated too long. Remaining Resource utilisation seems to be such an obvious requirement and it's been in PMW for ages so surely it's in MP by now.

Where do I find 'Resource % = whatever is left over' in MP2003?

Thanks

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Simon,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

You could try from the Gantt view: Window/Split, click on the bottom pane to
make it active and then View/Resource Graph. In the top pane select a task
with the resource and then right click in the bottom pane and select
Remaining Availability.

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this web address: <http://www.mvps.org/project/>

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP

Newbie Question.
I've just moved from PMW where I could assign 'Remaining Resource' to a

task (profiling.) This would allow me to have some support/help/interuption
tasks assigned at maybe 10% of a resource utilisation and then assign 'the
rest' to the real tasks in hand. In Project 2003 I seem to need to have to
put in the actual % against the real tasks - 70%, 80% or 90% but this
changes depending upon when the support/help/interuption tasks are running.
It seems I just have to go for worst case and enter 70% but then the
duration is calculated too long. Remaining Resource utilisation seems to be
such an obvious requirement and it's been in PMW for ages so surely it's in
MP by now.