Scheduling global teams on non-working days.

[UnitZ]

Hi,
We have two teams to manage (Malaysia & India). These teams have their
country specific non-working days which have been added on their respective
calendars & attached to the resources. Malaysia holidays are on Standard and
India holidays are on India calendar. The challenge is that MSP2007 schedules
a task (wherein both teams have remote conferences together) on non-working
days falling in either of the calendars. The task cannot be executed if
either of the team is unavailable.
It'd help if MSP doesn't schedule a task at all if the task date is on a
holiday for either of the teams.
I tried looking on the forum if this has been asked before but couldn't find
anything close to the issue. Please help in figuring a way out.

Many thanks!!

 

[JulieS]

Hello UnitZ,

Sorry, to say, Project doesn't work that way out of the box. It has
been a long requested feature to be able to restrict the scheduling
of a task to time period where all resources are available. Project
functions that if you assign multiple resources, the work for each
resource will be scheduled based upon that resource's working
calendar, paying no attention to the work time for the other
resource.

So, a couple of choices -
1 - Set a constraint on the task to force the meeting to occur on a
specific date/time.
2 - Create a third calendar which combines the nonworking time from
both calendars and then set that calendar as the task calendar for
those tasks that require resources from both teams. Set the task to
ignore the resource calendars. This is still not fool proof but may
get your closer.

I hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie
Project MVP

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[UnitZ]

Thanks JulieS for your reply. I feel option 2 works best for me.

Thanks again!

 

[JulieS]

You're welcome and thanks for the feedback. Do drop by again if you
have further questions.

Julie