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NickK
Your insight and ideas on this scenario are greatly appreciated. I’ve
tried a couple of different ways to achieve this in Project but have
yet to find the appropriate way, if achievable at all. At the core,
it’s how to handle the progression of a project from proposal to
actual and the corresponding unknown versus known resources.
Example:
During the Planning stage of a customer engagement we develop the
software requirements and document these. We develop a draft task plan
utilizing generic “senior” resources. Essentially software engineers
that have a 100% efficiency. We put an estimated fixed price on the
project.
We move forward from the planning phase and get ready to start the
development. We revisit the task plan and can now assign actual
resources. Some of the resources are “senior” 100% efficiency 1:1.
Some of the other resources are mid or junior level and thus a 1.5:1
or 2:1 factor. Tasks are based on fixed work. So a 4 hour task may
take resource A (100%) 4 hours, but resource B (50%) 8 hours. I need
the work and duration to accurately represent the resources efficiency
and corresponding allocation.
Naturally over the course of a 2,000 hr development project the
resources may change and thus the work for the corresponding tasks
needs to be adjusted.
The only way I’ve thought of to handle this is to manually make the
adjustments as “real or known” resources are assigned, or re-assigned.
Modifying the resource’s calendar or units has been used in the past
as kind of a “hack” for projecting a duration representative of the
resources efficiency. Going forward this won’t be an acceptable
solution. I need to be able to use the resource’s calendar or units
for their intended purposes.
I appreciate your thoughts and insights on this. I could only find one
previous post related to this matter from 2003.
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...read/thread/3c3f478adf184141/f3d704485ebbc145
tried a couple of different ways to achieve this in Project but have
yet to find the appropriate way, if achievable at all. At the core,
it’s how to handle the progression of a project from proposal to
actual and the corresponding unknown versus known resources.
Example:
During the Planning stage of a customer engagement we develop the
software requirements and document these. We develop a draft task plan
utilizing generic “senior” resources. Essentially software engineers
that have a 100% efficiency. We put an estimated fixed price on the
project.
We move forward from the planning phase and get ready to start the
development. We revisit the task plan and can now assign actual
resources. Some of the resources are “senior” 100% efficiency 1:1.
Some of the other resources are mid or junior level and thus a 1.5:1
or 2:1 factor. Tasks are based on fixed work. So a 4 hour task may
take resource A (100%) 4 hours, but resource B (50%) 8 hours. I need
the work and duration to accurately represent the resources efficiency
and corresponding allocation.
Naturally over the course of a 2,000 hr development project the
resources may change and thus the work for the corresponding tasks
needs to be adjusted.
The only way I’ve thought of to handle this is to manually make the
adjustments as “real or known” resources are assigned, or re-assigned.
Modifying the resource’s calendar or units has been used in the past
as kind of a “hack” for projecting a duration representative of the
resources efficiency. Going forward this won’t be an acceptable
solution. I need to be able to use the resource’s calendar or units
for their intended purposes.
I appreciate your thoughts and insights on this. I could only find one
previous post related to this matter from 2003.
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...read/thread/3c3f478adf184141/f3d704485ebbc145