Jennifer SharpSystems Administrator| Orlando HealthOrlando, Fl, United States
We are trying to use MSP with Clarity 8.0. We are able to move the project information back and forth between the two to our needs. However, there are no alerts if a resouce is assigned to a project when they are already assigned 100% to another project during the same time period. If we bring resources over from one project to another, then we get the alerts and can do the resource leveling, but that isn't really helpful looking at actual use.
Is there anything anyone can advise to cause the alerts to show up? We had thought once the project was saved to Clarity, it would cause the overallocation alerts, but perhaps we are missing something. Saving Changes...
Prasad VelagaExecutive| OptisolCollege Station, Tx, United States
Jennifer,
The post with caption "Resource Leveling using a resource pool" dated 4/15/2009 also looks for similar help in resource allocation across multiple projects in Project Server 2007. It received very little response so far.
Why don't you look for tools that automatically schedule multiple projects in a single exercise within a few seconds with no resource overallocation? Such tools also produce a feasible and rational schedule (task list with start and finish times) for each resource in the system under the assumption that no multitasking is allowed for any resource. In my view, scheduling tasks subject to dependency relations and then checking the resulting schedule for resource overallocation is not an intelligent function of project managers. The independent critical path schedules of multiple simultaneous projects are meaningless when many tasks of the projects compete and wait for shared resources of finite capacity.
