Total float

Dear Vladimir,



Thank you for the comment.



With kind regards,



Samer

Samer,

you shall add "and unlimited resources".

In other case apply the traditional resource constrained scheduling.

Best Regards,

Vladimir

Hi,



You can search the net and google "Line of Balance". This applies in this case when we have repetitive activities.



With kind regards,



Samer

Rola,

If you define resources and recourse groups and assign it to activities it’s easy to see your resource histogram, as a example you can define five tilling team as T1,T2,T3,T4,T5 and all of them should be in resource group T, then after resource assignment you can have histogram of each one or histogram of group.



regards,

To all,



If you have good software capable of implementing good resource constraining and capable of providing true float after resource leveling then using dependencies as a substitute of true resource constraining functionality is bad medicine.



As a matter of fact in some of our CPM specs this trick to force or substitute resurce constraining is explicitly prohibited.



Best regards,

Rafael

Hi Rola

There are 5 villas, if you are going to start and finish all of them together you will have 5 sub-schedules, actually there is not physical relation between activities of each schedule with other schedule and you will have huge TF, which is not true in fact. Because in this case your resources (manpower/machinery) are constrain. For example why you should have 5 team of tilling , one for each villa .you can do tilling by one team ,Villa 1, then 2 ,then 3 ... .so I think you can link similar activities of those 5 schedules together to consider your resource constraints, it will reduce TF.

if you are going to finish those villas in consecutive way, you will not have huge TF because finish dates of the villa 1 will be start date of villa 2 and ... .



regards,

Hi Rola



Identify a number of key resources that have limited availablity.



Filter on these one by one and link them across the villas.



Best regards



Mike Testro

Dear Rola,



If the CM is asking you to submit a detailed schedule for 5 years. Reject it by clearly stating that you are able to submit/commit a milestone schedule at this stage. You can commit yourself to a detailed Schedule for 1-2 years. More than that would be not practical.



With kind regards,



Samer

Hi to all



I had the same circumstance in my project .Main reason I found is improper and illogical links in the existing programme done by third party. Arrange the activities in the priority order of occurrence and link them with logical relationships .Total float tends to increase if the most priority activity is tied with least priority level activities just for the sake of arriving specific dates which is incorrect way of doing project schedule

Hi Rola



You have not said what software you are using but in most modern systems you can combine more than one project in the same file and set up cross project links for such things as resource management.



In this format you can show sole project critical paths or total project float - even without using end by flags.



As far as I know this is not possible in P3 or MSP.



So - what software are you using?



Best regards



Mike Testro.

Dear Rola,



You have a 5 years program. This should be a higher level program not a detailed program. Level 1 is the Milestone and Level 2 are the major activities.



Going to the detailed activities after 2-5 years does not make sense at this time.



If you Contract is for 5 years then you can’t submit a detailed schedule within the 1st 28 days from the Commencement Order. You need to disucss this clearly with the upper management. Like Mike said, have 5 programs would make more sense. You can work on the complete details for each, but the start date would be connected to the Milestone associated with that villa.



With kind regards,



Samer

Hi Rola



In your situation the total float is perfectly normal.



Why not have 5 programmes - 1 for each Villa?



Best regards



Mike testro

Dear Rola,



Go back and study the relationships, resources, and durations. You need to spend time debugging your schedule until it makes sense.



What you are doing is not correct.



With kind regards,



Samer