28th May 2009, 04:09 PM
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Re: Resource leveling among multiple projects
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Thanks Gerard, however I dont have Project Server...
"Gérard Ducouret" wrote:
> Hi Amy,
>
> The Resource Leveling feature doesn't take in account the resource skills.
> You have to manage the skills manually.
> If you used the server version : Project Professional, you could use a
> Resource Substitution feature which takes care of resource avaialabilty and
> skills.
> <<One of my concerns is that I want the developer who does the development
> to do the QA support as well.>> : I didn't try to manage this issue, but I
> think that in the
> Resource Substitution Wizard, it's possible to do.
>
> Gérard Ducouret
>
> "Amy" <Amy@discussions.microsoft.com> a écrit dans le message de news:
> 537BF3F3-E3B5-4519-9311-E5E60F234927@microsoft.com...
> >I have 10 projects I am trying to plan for a program for the rest of the
> > year. The team includes 15 developers. There are about 15 various skill
> > sets of the developers- but they are not all held by all developers. This
> > is
> > to say that on certain tasks, I could swap out developers but it depends
> > on
> > the task.
> >
> > Right now I am assigning and switching back and forth to resource
> > allocation
> > and trying to manually level. This is really time consuming. I am
> > wondering
> > if I should be using resource leveling. If I did, should I use the actual
> > developers names or should I create skill sets with higher % availability.
> > For example, if I have 3 developers that can do Java development should I
> > create a "Java Developer" at 300% available and have it level against
> > that?
> >
> > One of my concerns is that I want the developer who does the development
> > to
> > do the QA support as well. This is a seperate task within each project
> > (all
> > projects are in the same plan right now) and I dont want Java Developer A
> > ultimately assigned to fix Java Developer B's code.
> >
> > Does this make sense? Is my only recourse manual leveling and
> > adjustments.
> > I have to run a ton of scenarios and its eatting up a lot of time.
> >
> > Thanks!
>
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