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Resource levelling up (not down)

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Fri, 2024-11-22 09:46
Peter Holroyd
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Normaĺly in P6 resource levelling you specify a limit for the critical resource and then P6 adjusts the schedule to avvomodate this limit (never understood on what criteria it moved activities). I was looking to do the opposite - level up. E.g. for instance we have an overall budget spread on our accepted schedule but the client has a greater budget limit in certain periods and wants to spend it as he may lose it. How can I get P6 to adjust the schedule automatically to reach these budget limits?
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Fri, 2024-11-22 10:06
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david kelly
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What I usually do, is break the work down into as many parallel jobs that can be done at the same time as possible. Then allow the levelling to choose "enough" of these jobs to fill the availability, probably by an activity-level priority code.
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Fri, 2024-11-22 10:02
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david kelly
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Peter, Tragically, you could get P3 to do this in 1990. But P6 does not "crunch" during resource levelling. The best way to do it is to transfer the data into Spider Project, complete the levelling, and send it back. It is a shame that P6, which is a magnificent piece of late 2oth century software, remains unfinished.
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