Resource Units and Leveling

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Jessica80304

Hi -

I am using MS-Project 2003 and ran into a resource leveling issue I cannot
seem to resolve.

I have a project where a number of tasks are set to resource units = 30%
(i.e. ResourceName [30%]). These tasks are set to effort driven and a defined
duration. I did this to indicate that the resource will be working on this
task for 30% of their time and it has a defined duration.

I have left the resource units at 100% in the resource usage graph for the
project as a whole. The reasoning is that these resources are working on a
project that they will spent part of their time on, but they have other time
during the day to be assigned to other work. These tasks are of primary
importance and so I set the priority to 800. (We do this to account for
projects where we interact with clients and are regularly awaiting their
response on topics which allows our engineers to work on more than one thing
at once.)

I then completed the rest of the project tasks (all can be allocated at up
to 100%) and left the default priority of 500. I then applied resource
leveling to the entire project.

All of the 30% tasks were scheduled first (as expected by my priority
setting) but the remainder of the tasks were started AFTER the completion of
the 30% tasks, as if the resources were only available 30% of the time as
opposed to the fact that I only want them to work on this task 30% of their
time.

My hope was that the remainder of each day up to the 100% available would be
filled with the lower priority projects. So for each day I would have 2.4h of
priority 800 work and 5.6h of priority 500 work.

I have searched everywhere and can't determine the rule that is governing
this or a way to fix this "under allocation." The plan is far too large to
try to manually split tasks and set them up.

Has anyone ever tried this and have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance for any hints or advice.
 

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