E. M. Hanna; 7/31/03 DXI Management Consulting 1 Resource Leveling
E. M. Hanna; 7/31/03 DXI Management Consulting 2 Agenda Importance of the Individual Project Plan Importance of Resolving Resource Over-Allocations in All Project Plans Identifying Resource Over-Allocations Manual (On-demand) Leveling of Projects Manual (On-demand) Leveling of Resources Leveling Resources Across a Portfolio of Projects
E. M. Hanna; 7/31/03 DXI Management Consulting 3 Importance of the Individual Project Plan
E. M. Hanna; 7/31/03 DXI Management Consulting 4 The Building Blocks of EPM The individual Project Plan is the building block from which the Enterprise Project Management environment is constructed. The discipline of building sound Project Plans is critical to the success of EPM. Resolving resource over-allocations is a critical part of the discipline of building sound Project Plans.
E. M. Hanna; 7/31/03 DXI Management Consulting 5 Basic Process for Creating a Project Plan
E. M. Hanna; 7/31/03 DXI Management Consulting 6 Importance of Resolving Resource Over-Allocations in all Project Plans
E. M. Hanna; 7/31/03 DXI Management Consulting 7 Over-Allocation of Resources Over-Allocation of Resources exists when— Work [Scheduled] > Available Hours* Usually caused by scheduling multiple assignments for a resource during a single time period (Note: EPM significantly intensifies this problem) Project considers the Resource Calendar—but not other assignments—when scheduling new assignments *Available hours = Working Hours in Time Period X Resource Units
E. M. Hanna; 7/31/03 DXI Management Consulting 8 Impact of Over-Allocated Resources If over-allocated resources exist in a schedule, the entire project schedule is untrustworthy and not suitable for use in managing the project. If individual project plans are untrustworthy, all portfolio analysis becomes untrustworthy
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E. M. Hanna; 7/31/03 DXI Management Consulting 11 Identifying Resource Over-Allocations
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E. M. Hanna; 7/31/03 DXI Management Consulting 16 Approaches to Leveling Project does the leveling Automatic leveling Manual (on demand) leveling Entire project Selected resources Project Manager does the leveling Risk
E. M. Hanna; 7/31/03 DXI Management Consulting 17 Methods of Resolving Resource Over-Allocations Delay a task Split a task Reduce a task’s duration Change the resources assigned to the task Assign more resources to the task Replace an over- allocated resource with and under-allocated resource Remove an over- allocated resource from a task Add overtime Project Uses Only These Two
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E. M. Hanna; 7/31/03 DXI Management Consulting 21 Manual (On-Demand) Leveling of a Single Resource
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E. M. Hanna; 7/31/03 DXI Management Consulting 33 Recommendations About Leveling Resource over-allocations must be addressed A “Project Audit” should be conducted on project plans that are being published to the server. The audit should include a check for over-allocated resources. Recommend—especially to naïve clients— that Project’s Automatic Leveling and Manual (On Demand) Leveling features not be used.
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