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From: Silene on 21 Mar 2010 08:14 I work with a calendar that is setting 9 hours work/day for all the resources. In the resource usage I see that more than 8 hours of work is shown in red, but also sometimes all kinds of hours like 4.5, 5.6, 4.8 hs is red as well, even though is a normal working day. What is going on here???? txs
From: Andrew Lavinsky on 21 Mar 2010 11:13 A couple of things: 1) Are you sure the resource calendars are also set to 9 hours per day? If not, they would show up overallocated when assigned to 9 hours of tasks. 2) Project calculates overallocations to the minute. If you have two tasks, both assigned to the same resource, and both scheduled on the same day from 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM, the resource will show up as overallocated, despite the fact that there's only 1 hour of effort logged for the same day. I'd look at overlapping tasks as your culprit. To look for overlapping tasks, expose the Resource Management toolbar, and click on that first icon to get the split screen view with Resource Usage at the top and the Gantt Chart at the bottom. Then, zoom in to whatever level of granularity you require to identify where the overlap resides. I'd also point out that I am a bit concerned that you have hours showing up as 4.5, 5.6, etc. Are you really assigning work on that granular a level, or do you have Fixed Duration tasks, to which you are assigning work estimates? What is your duration/effort estimating methodology? That may be the true culprit. - Andrew Lavinsky Blog: http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/epm > I work with a calendar that is setting 9 hours work/day for all the > resources. In the resource usage I see that more than 8 hours of work > is shown in red, but also sometimes all kinds of hours like 4.5, 5.6, > 4.8 hs is red as well, even though is a normal working day. What is > going on here???? > > txs >
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