Using Project Priorities

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JM Cox

I am using project priorities to allocate limited
resources. I would like Project to allocate resources by
priority until each person's time is consumed. I want a
visual indication of which projects require overallocated
resources.

Alternatively, in the Resource Graph view, I would like to
see a stacked bar graph that shows the projects in
priority order.

Is there a way to do either of these two things?

Thanks,
jmc
 
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Trevor Rabey

There are two things to say about this.
First, project management (or at least the parts of it that are addressed by
CPM and MSP) is about managing tasks to achieve a project, not about getting
max use out of resources.
Second, priorities are there to force a certain sequence of tasks when they
are levelled.
 
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Steve House

Project never assigns or adjusts resource allocations to tasks for you -
that's a management decision, not the job of software. Resource leveling
delays work on one or more tasks to reduce the *total* allocation in a given
time period *if* a resource is overallocated on two or more tasks during
that time period. Overallocation means the resource is scheduled to do more
work in a given time frame than it is physically possible for him to do -
expected to do 16 hours of work over the course of an 8 hour work day, for
example, so in effect he's been scheduled to be at two places at once. The
priority setting is the way you instruct project on which of two tasks, or
the task in which of two projects, is the most important to finish on time
should it become necessary to delay one of them to resolve a resource
overallocation situation. Except for resource leveling it has no effect.
 

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