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MIxing project work and sustaining work with the same resources

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Bill McQueen Eng Project Manager| Nanometrics York, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Hi,

I have a set of resources (approx 30) who take on all design engineering work. This can be anything from a major project or a 1 hour sustaining engineering task.

Planning this with MS Project has been a nightmare as the schedules and priorities are very dynamic, and can change on a day to day basis. The project plan was kept at a reasonably detail level (1 day min) and could not be kept up to date

My execs want a tool that can show what work moves out if some work that was low priority becomes urgent.

In a number of cases my resources are specialists (ie no one else can do the job)

I cant imagine that I'm the first person to struggle with this type of environment and hope there are others who have found a way to make this work.

Any guidance will be really appreciated!
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