Assigning resources to partially overlapping activities

Hi Volkan

So you only have one team and they cant be in two places at once - right.

So you have to remove the overlap by way of FS links and use up the float.

If no float then you will have a delayed end date - or get one more team.

Best regards

Mike Testro

Volkan,

Try searching for how your software handle partial assignments, the team cannot be at the same time working on different activities but can be scheduled to work part of the day on each of the activities.

This is very common resource allocation for resources like a crane that is shared among different activities.

Not all software works in the same way but somehow P6 shall have his own way.

After you learn the basics of partial assignments then you might try more advanced allocations such as variable resource loading for variable quantities and variable partial assigments, such as assigning at the beginning the whole crew 100% of the time to activity 1, then as soon as activity 2 starts say 50% on activity 1 and 50% on activity 2. This is bit more complicated but is what most PM will do at the site in order to avoid the waste of idle resources. If you do not do this, eventually it might happen that the PM will manually make the adjustments at the jobsite and set aside the CPM as useless for good resource planning.

Do not forget that variable resource loading will usually have an effect on the activity duration.

Good luck,

Rafael

"Try searching for how your software handle partial assignments, the team cannot be at the same time working on different activities but can be scheduled to work part of the day on each of the activities."

Dear Rafael,

Can you please explain how to set the team working part of the day on each activities? I tried to figure how to do it but unfortunately i couldnt do it. I have been using Primavera 6.0 for almost 3 weeks so i am not completely familiar with it yet.

Thank you for you reply.