Resource Bars and Activity Bars

Erdem, i did not specified the resource durations in the first place, it is only after i found out that the resource bars doesnt coinside (ES & EF) with the activity bars when i used the global change. my resource lags are 0

Erdem, maybe you are referring to an schedule that has already an update.



My query is on a schedule that hasnt been updated.



Please refer to my previous post, the one with the example with an activity having 10 day duration..



Supposedly, an activity with a duration of 10 day, will have its resource’s duration to be 10 days too right? but in my case, changing the original duration of the schedule i am revising, doesnt changes the duration of its resource. again, this activity has no progress yet. and so the data date is that of the project start.



Regarding your reply, i tried it now on my updated schedule i found out that, still, resource’s duration doesnt follow the remaining duration of the activity, and so i am stilll using global change to correct this. and checking your advice, i found that both the "at completion" & "to complete" values of both resource & cost of my schedule when i update using import of % complete from a dbf file, are just equal to that of the budget quantities/cost. this is without running a global change i have previously discussed, which will match the resource’s %complete/expended with that of the activities % complete after i have inputed the actual dates of the activities that have progressed. in other words, during an update, p3 only reflects the activity % complete. it is only when i run a the global change that p3 calculted the actual this period and to date values of both resource’s cost & quantity.



Thank you all for the reply, and please if you have other ideas we can try, please dont hesitate to post it.

The values in the example i have presented is merely of illustrative purposes, and i have choosen the total value instead of peak or average because, as i have said, my activities have about 4 resources and are not purely labor. although my concern is the labor resource, p3’s computation of labor and non labor resources are just the same, right? so i want to be sure p3 is loading the resources at the right time (the duration, ES & EF of its host activity) before i check the labor resources and then do a leveling.



hope this could clear some misunderstandings,

Thanks Ferdinand,



The schedule i am revising hasnt been updated with progress yet. I havent leveled it yet though i have set limits to certain resources, moreover, each activity has about 4 different resources.



I want to have the correct values in the resource profile/table so i can be more confident in my revision. i have to check the new resorce loading prior to leveling. and every time i have to do that i have to run the global change to force p3 to have the resource duration equal to that of the activity’s original duration.



I dont have lags/leads in my resource duration. i am checking more on the manpower resource of the activities rather than the materials needed so ther is no need for the leadtimes.



I’ll make an example, let say "activity a" has OD=10 Days, BQ=100, UPT = 10. so that in the profile table i have 70 on week 1 and 30 on week 2(Total Quantities). this is true before i change activity a’s OD. let say activity a’s OD is now 5 Days, we expect to have 100 on the resource table for week 1 alone (Total Quantity, same workday/week) however, this is not true. the resource profile still has 70 on week 1 and 30 on week 2. displaying the resource bar along with the early bars, confirms that activity a’s resource duration is still equal to 10 Days. even if i schedule it, it is still the same. showing the resource details od activity a salso shows that both the UPT & BQ havent change, even if i perform a schedule. but once i run the global change, RDUR=OD, both the resource bars, UPT & UPT, changes to match what we expect earlier.



hope this makes my query clearer.

i am revising a schedule and i am checking its resource table/profile and i found some inconsistencies, there are periods that have no activity yet there are values in the profile/table. so i displayed the resource bars along with the activities early bars. and found out that the activities that i have changed the durations, its resource duration haven’t adopted the new duration of the activity. so i made a global change just to correct it. this schedule has no target yet, hasnt been updated yet. i am merely modifying the durations of some activities and their precedence.



in autocost rules, remaining duration is linked with percent complete, resource units per time period are not frozen, actuals are subtracted from EAC negative ETC - not allowed all the rest check boxes are checked and variances are calculated as Budget - EAC. it is set to perform autocost rules during each schedule computation and the rules are applied when moving from one cell to another.



i also tried the resource activity details. modifying an activity’s duration, doesnt automatically changes the units per time period. i have to run a global change so that the resource duration are equal to that of the the activities original duration, it is only then the p3 shows a new units per time period. on the resource activity detail.



question is, why is it that resource duration does not automatically adopts the activity’s duration? are there any other setting i am missing or have i overlooked the settings in the autocost rule?



please advice.