R/UT greater than Max/UT leaving the activity on the early dates is normal in P3, back to about 1997 that I can vouch for, and Open Plan for 10 years before that, and IBMs Projacs for 5 years before that and all the K&H and Project 2 stuff before that.....
I think a version of Artemis let you chose the late dates, but I always thought that was wrong.
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Submitted by Patricia Le Clainche on Mon, 2007-05-28 14:04
Regarding this topics, I give up doing it for two reasons :
- Parameters to change are in the "Schedule" function. Therefore, it seems there is no way to do if you want to schedule several projects together with only one needing Leveling resources.
- I only use this function in "Simulation" space, to get an idea of what to do, but make changes manually in the actual project. And I also found some strange results such as yours.
Well it seems a bit of investigating got done today at work with my off-sider.
In a nutshell what we have found is that the resource leveling the algorithm can’t handle having a resource assignment on an activity with a “remaining units/time” greater than the “max units/time” assigned to the resource.
When this occurs the activity in question is scheduled to commence on its early dates, even if it means overloading the resource.
In the past I have not encountered this issue as the software I have used to do full resource leveling had a parameter built into the algorithm which allowed an activity to be delayed for a manually set period of time before forcibly starting the activity.
Never before have I seen the activity default back to its early dates, there wasn’t even a warning or notification that I could see that identified that this had occurred.
I’m sending an e-mail off to Primavera tomorrow in an attempt to find out if this is normal or if I’ve missed something.
If anyone else has some info on this let me know through this forum please.
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21 yearsRE: Resource Leveling in P5 - Resource is always overloaded
R/UT greater than Max/UT leaving the activity on the early dates is normal in P3, back to about 1997 that I can vouch for, and Open Plan for 10 years before that, and IBMs Projacs for 5 years before that and all the K&H and Project 2 stuff before that.....
I think a version of Artemis let you chose the late dates, but I always thought that was wrong.
If you are levelling in P5 YOU MUST HAVE SERVICE PACK THREE!!! You have been warned!
Member for
18 years 5 monthsRE: Resource Leveling in P5 - Resource is always overloaded
Regarding this topics, I give up doing it for two reasons :
- Parameters to change are in the "Schedule" function. Therefore, it seems there is no way to do if you want to schedule several projects together with only one needing Leveling resources.
- I only use this function in "Simulation" space, to get an idea of what to do, but make changes manually in the actual project. And I also found some strange results such as yours.
Sorry I cannot help you more.
Patricia.
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18 years 8 monthsRE: Resource Leveling in P5 - Resource is always overloaded
Well it seems a bit of investigating got done today at work with my off-sider.
In a nutshell what we have found is that the resource leveling the algorithm can’t handle having a resource assignment on an activity with a “remaining units/time” greater than the “max units/time” assigned to the resource.
When this occurs the activity in question is scheduled to commence on its early dates, even if it means overloading the resource.
In the past I have not encountered this issue as the software I have used to do full resource leveling had a parameter built into the algorithm which allowed an activity to be delayed for a manually set period of time before forcibly starting the activity.
Never before have I seen the activity default back to its early dates, there wasn’t even a warning or notification that I could see that identified that this had occurred.
I’m sending an e-mail off to Primavera tomorrow in an attempt to find out if this is normal or if I’ve missed something.
If anyone else has some info on this let me know through this forum please.
Andy