Resource Levelling Problem
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Oliver,
it is very hard to do in large schedules with many dozens resource types and many thousands activities. Manual prioritization my lead to poor schedules. MS Project does not suggest different prioritization options and there is no other choice. But in Primavera it is reasonable to try several automated options. The results may still be unatisfactory but it is very hard to discover this just looking at the large schedule.
There is another option - export the schedule into Spider Project, level there, and then import the results. But in this case you shall have both tools.
Regards,
Vladimir
Mark,
With the amount of prioritisation, constraints, logic rework and doublechecks that need to be done using an autmated levelling tool, i find it better to jst do it by eyd using the resource usage profile.
This is just my opinion but i believe the same goes for MSP and Primavera.
Mark,
Primavera does not optimize resource constrained schedules and your case is typical. I recommend to try different levelling priorities (for an example choose Remaining Duration instead of Total Float) and select the best schedule that is closer to your needs.
But remember that the order of activity execution depends on the priorities used and selecting other priorities in future you may get totally different schedule.