Discussion

Resource overallocation

November 16, 2012 - 20:15 pm
MattiD
3 comment(s)

Hello,

Can someone help me with the following problem?

If you have an overallocation of a resource, where can you level it out so that the resource is only used at 100% each day?

Thank you in advance!

3 Comments

November 19, 2012 - 20:15 pm

You can level resources by moving the activities/tasksmanually to a later date. This can be done by 'getting hold of the task' by cklcing and holding down and then 'sliding' the activity to a new position. Thenew resource level shows immediately in the histogram. This is likely to end up with fraction days if you are not careful and also youcan create new links you do not mean to. But with prctice it is OK. Alternatively you can change the start date in the task panel after double clicking the activity in the Gantt chart view.

March 12, 2014 - 22:52 pm

This sounds like an easy problem to overcome.

Simply provide a setting that allows the user to specify the amount of overallocation to allow before resources are leveled.  Any overallocation below that limit would be allowed, but once that limit is reached then taskes are shifted.

I personally think this could be very beneficial to PMs because you could edit that number to see how it impacts the schedule.  This could then be used to determine how much overtime to approve.

If there is an enabe/disable checkbox for the feature, then PMs that do not want the feature can turn it off.  It just seems silly to not implement a feature simply because some people don't want it, when there are also a large number of people who do want it.

February 19, 2016 - 18:07 pm

I agree that automated levelling is "rather complicated and full of issues" - the classic one being that you have a long task but need a resource from that involved in regular progress meetings. Unless you have the ability to split tasks then it just doesn't work (hit that one in the past).

But a really basic system that didn't split tasks and used the dependency links and task priority would be quite useful in a lot of projects.