Allocation of tasks to resources
August 8, 2013 - 16:13 pm
3 comment(s)
I have created a project with a number if single day tasks, a lot of dependencies amongst them, various priorities, and a single resource to do them. The intention is to get a good sequencing of the many interrelated tasks.
However, part from dependencies causing one task to be scheduled after it predecessor, large numbers of tasks are being scedhuled on the same day, even though each task is defined with 8 hours duration and 8 hours work.
How do I tell it that this resource can only do 1 task a day?
3 Comments
Does ProjectLibre support leveling of resources?
Since no-one has offered any thoughts on this topic, I will offer one myself.
MS Project has this great function called leveling of resources which overcomes this overallocation issue. But I cannot find any such feature within Project Libre.
Is the fault mine because I am a newbie and dop not know where to find such a feature, or does it not actually exist?
Resource leveling in the future
Hey there, I am sorry for the delayed reply..... a busy end of Summer! Your question is a great one. You can actually have a sub-window showing the resource histogram and manually level by looking at the overallocated resources. However, your intention is automatic resource leveling function. It is a contentious topic as some purists don't like the results. I do think it is great to level and then create another baseline so you can see the delta in schedule. We will be working on this functionality. We are currently completely rewriting ProjectLibre. This will fit into the future releases!
All the best,
Marc
Leveling is great (when it works)
Thanks for the reply. Having used MS Project for a number of years, I can vouch for some very weird behaviours at various time, like a minor change to a 3 month project which is coming in on schedule and levelling suddenly causes Project to blow it out to a 3 year project.
Look forward to your rewrite :)