How reliable is peak unit values.?
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Vinod RaturiMember for 20 years 2 months
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Hi All,
I was trying to experiment on smaller scale for resource assignments. The steps involved were ,
1) I created a task with different combination of characteristics like fixed duration ( effort driven ) , Fixed duration ( with effort duration off ) , fixed units ( effort driven and effort driven off ) & fixed work.
2) Duration of 44 hrs were assigned to tasks.
3) resouce assigned was 1 unit for each task.
4) in task usage view , last day 4 hours was changed to 16 hours , since on that day two person ( i hoped ) will work.
5) In final stage , i saw for all the tasks , peak resource assignment in graph on last day was showing 6 , contrary to what i expected that max it should be 2 , since two resources would be sufficient to complete 16 hours of work on last day.
IS this behaviour normal ?
Thanks,
with regards,
vinod
I was trying to experiment on smaller scale for resource assignments. The steps involved were ,
1) I created a task with different combination of characteristics like fixed duration ( effort driven ) , Fixed duration ( with effort duration off ) , fixed units ( effort driven and effort driven off ) & fixed work.
2) Duration of 44 hrs were assigned to tasks.
3) resouce assigned was 1 unit for each task.
4) in task usage view , last day 4 hours was changed to 16 hours , since on that day two person ( i hoped ) will work.
5) In final stage , i saw for all the tasks , peak resource assignment in graph on last day was showing 6 , contrary to what i expected that max it should be 2 , since two resources would be sufficient to complete 16 hours of work on last day.
IS this behaviour normal ?
Thanks,
with regards,
vinod
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Oldest first- 0Alexandre Faulx-Briole ·Vinod,
as you entered 16 hours on the last day, MS Project put the all 16 hours at the same time where the initial 4 hours were, the morning.
click zoom in (the magnifier +) to see the time more in details
if you want to spread the 16 hours during the whole day, enter 8 hours during the morning and 8 hours in the afternoon; ms project will display a warning saying the resource is assigned beyond the task limit on the fixed duration tasks; click OK
the resource graph will show peak unit = 2.
Alexandre
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