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How do I get a higher priority task to interupt when required resource becomes available?
Hi,
I'm a complete newbie to MS Project, but somehow I've ended up with a fairly complex project, with hundreds of tasks and 40 or so resources. Lot's of interdependencies. The project deadline is sharp, needs to end by end of June. Automated leveling is not working, the project just ends up way past deadline. Manual levelling is really, really confusing and difficult. I'm allowed to add new resources to the project if needed ( though with a bit of management conflict). But I notice there's a lot of resource slack, that I should take better advantage of. However, I can't seem to get resources to "fill in available time" to a secondary task. I can get them to work on multiple tasks, by carefully adjusting the percentage. But this kind of manual adjustment is way to difficult in the real life project. I've added a sample project, to illustrate my point. The sample doesn't demonstrate the leveling issue fully, since no resources are overallocated. What I want, off course, is for resource Res1 to abort his progress on LowPriTask, complete the work that needs to be done on HighPriTask, (so Res2 can get to work on LateTask), then go back and complete LowPriTask. This would cut the project timeline by 1 week. I hope my sample project demonstrate the problem, since understanding the real life project will be a bit complex. sample.mpp br Anders |
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Are you actually applying different priorities to the tasks and then using the leveling option for Priority/Standard? Are you allowing Project to split tasks?
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