Resources and Financial Leveling

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Bogdan:

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• Spatial Resources - Google Slides

Bogdan and Vladimir

• If you apply financial splitting allowed for all activities at the Resource Constrained Schedule configuration it will miss some activities that should not be scheduled with financial splitting no matter what.
• I have the suspiction it would be minimal the difference in computing time if at the Resource Constrained Schedule configuration or if at the activity parameters. The significant difference should be between as it is now vs any of the proposed alternatives.

Best Regards,

Rafael

Bogdan,

I did not want to interrupt your request to Vladimir therefore I tried sending you this message to comment but could not get your name into the required recipient field (*).

- When using the same resource over multiple locations (buildings for example) it makes no sense to make the activity Interruptable because the resource cannot jump from one building to another ...

> Resources can still jump from one building to another no matter if activities are not interruptible, modeling of resource as a spatial recource can prevent this.

> Spatial Resources - Google Slides

• I like the idea of the 3 interruptable options to be at the activity level: but not sure if that would place too much burden on the resource leveling.

Good Luck

(*) I just figured it out I misspelled your name into the required recipient field.

Bogdan,

I don't understand the purpose of this.

We can define if an activity can be interrupted or not and usually this is a technology restriction.

Why it can or cannot be interrupted does not depend on the reason for interruption.

The schedule is created taking into account all existing constraints. Interruptions created by financial constraints change resource requirements for the following works, separate resource and financial constrained schedules do not make sense.

I understand that it could be useful to inform the user why an activity was interrupted but do not imagine why any activity can be interrupted due to financial constraints only.

Consider showing FLEX

no splits but Flex will provide the information in a single view as follows

adjust schedule using available activity flex: you can split the activities if want to start earlier those activities with start flex



 

Bogdan,

I don't understand your idea and what do you want to achieve.

Resource constrained schedule will delay activities due to resource constraints.

Financial constrained schedule will remove these delays and will create other delays.

What information will you obtain comparing these schedules?

If in the resource constrained schedule the funding is not sufficient it makes sense to check what delays will be created by limited funding.

I suggest to try this:

1) Calculate resource constrained schedule (without interruptions) creating resource dependencies and save it.

2) Make resource dependencies real.

3) Calculate cost constrained schedule (with interruptions if you want).

4) Compare these schedules to see what delays were caused by limited funding only.

Let me know if I did not understand the task properly.