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P6 resource leveling pushes activity to individual day

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Fri, 2016-07-22 14:27
Mathew McKnight
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I'm using P6 for scheduling a project.  

I have 3 activities that don't seem to level correctly.  See below for example.

  • All are Task dependent activities
  • Same resource assigned to all activities
  • Calendar is set to 8 hours/day work schedule

I have 3 tasks with no logic between them, but they all use the same resource.

  • Task 1 - duration equals 7 hours
  • Task 2 - duration equals 2 hours
  • Task 3 - duration equals 7 hours

When resource leveling is performed, Task 2 pushes to a separte day and Task 3 goes to a third day. Results below:

  • Task 1 starts on Monday
  • Task 2 starts on Tuesday
  • Task 3 starts on Wednesday

I want and expected the following results (all work completing in the 16 hours of Monday and Tuesday):

  • Task 1 starts and completes on Monday
  • Task 2 starts on Monday and completes on Tuesday
  • Task 3 starts on Tuesday and completes on Tuesday

Any help is appreciated.

Update: I was just informed that the individual was using days for activity duration versus hours while trying to use hours available for resources.  I believe this is where the error is occurring and why the result is not as expected.

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Fri, 2016-07-22 18:12
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Vladimir Liberzon
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Mike, if you are not satisfied with resource leveling in the package that you use look for different software. Manual leveling is not a good solution. Spider Project levels resources exactly as Mathew expects. I am sure that there are right settings in P6 that provide expected result for so easy case.
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Fri, 2016-07-22 15:52
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Mike Testro
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Hi Mathew

If that is what you want then se logic to achieve the result.

Resource levelling will screw up your project in nanoseconds - do not use it.

Best regards

Mike T.

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