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Ask a Project PM: Resource Leveling

  • Artigo

Well this took a little longer to get up here than I had anticipated, but at long last, here’s the first video in our interview series, “Ask a Project PM.” In this interview, Bonny Lau, Program Manager for Microsoft Project, fields your questions on resource leveling. Many thanks to those who submitted questions!

Ask a Project PM: Resource Leveling

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  • Anonymous
    August 19, 2009
    Task  | Start Date| End Date | Predes. | Resource |Duration

Task1 | 17-Aug-09 | 17-Aug-09|         |  R1      | 1 Day Task2 | 17-Aug-09 | 19-Aug-09|  1SS    |  R2      | 3 Day Task3 | 18-Aug-09 | 19-Aug-09|  1      |  R1      | 2 Day Task4 | 20-Aug-09 | 20-Aug-09|  3      |  R2      | 1 Day In this scenario when R1 completes task3 in 1 day then Task4 Start Date will change to 19-Aug-09. Where as actually R2 will be engaged from 17-Aug-09 to 19-Aug-09 in Task2. Which means R2 cannot work on 2 task simultaneously. How can I avoid such situation. NB: All task type are created as Fixed Duration

  • Anonymous
    August 20, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    August 21, 2009
    I level across multiple projects and utilize equipment and human resources.  Normally, I'll want to have a series of tasks within one project use an equipment resource before another project's tasks start to use the same equipment.  (A device undergoes a series of tests, i.e. tasks, in the test area, which is the assigned equipment resource.) However, levelling will intersperse tasks from multiple projects rather than letting one project finish all its tasks before the next begins.  I want to keep them grouped together because the series of tests must occur on one device (i.e. project) at a time. I've left the project priorities at 500 to force levelling to look at all tasks across all projects equally except where the task priorities differ.  By setting the task priority of project A's tasks to 600 and project B's to 500, I would expect all of A's tasks to be grouped together and to start and finish before B's tasks.  However, I'll sometimes see 500 tasks intermingled with the 600 tasks. I do have the Leveling Order set to "Priority, Standard". Can anyone help?  Thanks...

  • Anonymous
    August 24, 2009
    The video is playing in 2x speed - perhaps it's an issue on my end?

  • Anonymous
    August 25, 2009
    Hmm, I'm not seeing that Dave...anyone else having playback issues?

  • Anonymous
    August 28, 2009
    No problems with the video fantastic information. This is the first time I have received a complete tutorial that goes beyond the gloomy fog of resource leveling in MS Project. All this time, I was leveling projects manually. For years people who trusted leveling in MS Project sat outside and were banned from the local cafeteria here. Now things will change. Not even the manual explains as well as Bonny does. Wait, sorry, I just admitted that I read the manual...sorry. Excellent video thanks.

  • Anonymous
    August 28, 2009
    This is really wonderful feedback, thanks! I'm hoping to do one of these interviews each month. Keep an eye out next week for a request for questions for next month's interview!

  • Anonymous
    August 28, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    July 18, 2010
    Cannot view.  Anyone else not use Silverlight?

  • Anonymous
    November 30, 2010
    I have merged two projects created in MS Project 2010, to make one master project. But i want to share the resources, but i am not able to share the resources or know how to do that. So does anyone know how to share the resources of a merged projects in MS Project 2010?

  • Anonymous
    December 02, 2010
    Dustin - This article tasks about how you can share resources - office.microsoft.com/.../share-resources-using-a-resource-pool-HA010214871.aspx It was written for Project 2007 but applies to 2010 - just note that the Share Resource commands are on the Resource tab under Resource Pool.