Schedule

[myranawabi]

Hi,
Has anyone ever put together a schedule for Lab and its usage? Do w
add the Lab and its equipment as a resource? If so what type of
resource is it? It is neither work, cost, or material in my case.
Here is what I am facing. I need to put together a schedule for la
that is in use 7 days a week 24 hours. It will be used by multiple team
at different hours. Due to configuration limitations similar groups ca
share the lab while in other times the lab will be occupied exculsivel
by one team for so many days.
Having trouble with the logic currently. Oh to make matters worse eac
team is dependent on one another for delivery. their start and finishe
are dependent.
Can anyone help me? As anyone ever run into this before?

Thanks,
Myr

 

[Jim Aksel]

It sounds like you are going to need a specific resource for each unique
configuration of the lab. For instance, if 100% of the equipment is
configured to Linux and can only be used by the Linux team, then you have
Lab-Linux. You might also have Lab-WS2003 which might be shared amongst many
teams.

It would be easy to use this as a normal resource and then use resource
leveling. However, you really do want to level two different resources. You
may be able to go 300% on LAB-WS2003 and only 100% on LAB-LINUX. But Project
has no way to know that you can't run those two concurrently.

It looks like you are going to have to do that part manually from the
Resource Usage or the Task Usage views. By the way, Project 2010 will be
somewhat more helpful in this area since there is a new Team Planner view
where you can drag and drop the tasks to assist you with manual leveling.
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[Prasad]

Myra,

I would like to express my thought process although I am not sure I
have sufficiently understood your scheduling problem. In this case,
tasks have not only dependency relations but also "exclusive"
relations under which two or more teams requiring distinct
configurations cannot operate in the lab at the same time. Dependence
of one team on other teams for start and finish should not be a
serious problem. I am not sure Project or any other project management
software can automatically handle the exclusive conditions. Some
scheduling tools can handle such cases automatically.

Prasad ( www.optisol.biz )

 

[salgud]

Hi,
Has anyone ever put together a schedule for Lab and its usage? Do we
add the Lab and its equipment as a resource? If so what type of a
resource is it? It is neither work, cost, or material in my case.
Here is what I am facing. I need to put together a schedule for lab
that is in use 7 days a week 24 hours. It will be used by multiple teams
at different hours. Due to configuration limitations similar groups can
share the lab while in other times the lab will be occupied exculsively
by one team for so many days.
Having trouble with the logic currently. Oh to make matters worse each
team is dependent on one another for delivery. their start and finishes
are dependent.
Can anyone help me? As anyone ever run into this before?

Thanks,
Myra

What you are scheduling is not a project. Project is designed to schedule
projects. You might get some sort of kludge to work, but my guess is you'll
be tweaking it from your grave.

"A screwdriver is not a good hammer. A hammer is not a good screwdriver".

I'd suggest you get some work scheduling software designed for what you are
doing.

HTH