Re: [Planner] Task Timing Question

[Christoph Begall <ramirez johalla de>]

Just my not very impressing thoughts, maybe someone else on the
list can advice you further:

1. Your modeling seems very fine, and sometimes a more abstract
   view has to be taken. You should not spend more time on the
   planning of tasks than on the real work.
2. If you have a resource that is overloaded like the one you
   created for yourself, then you should be able to find this
   conflict in the resource view.
3. I think, you actually would want to assign yourself to the
   different tasks but not 100 Units. When you have two tasks
   that will be done in parallel then you have to assign 50 Units
   of the resource to one task and 50 Units to the other. You can
   do that, when you assign the resource or when through the context
   menu -> edit task -> resource tab. You will find that a job needs
   more time if someone only works part time on it.

In general you came to the point where almost everybody comes, the
underlying model for Gantt charts does not allow for automatic
(re)assignment of resources.

Hope this helps,
Christoph.
 
On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 20:43, Jacob Brunson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> (I am told this is the user mailing list, I'm a user
> and I have a question.  If there is a better place
> somewhere else to ask this question, let me know and
> I'll take it there.)
> 
> I have never used project planning software before,
> but I thought I might give it a shot to impress my
> manager.  I am having some difficulty figuring out the
> logic about how to manage tasks or assigning
> predacessors.  Let me tell you what I want to do:
> 
> I manage a web site.  There are many pages in this web
> site, each will take a certain amount of time to do. 
> I have a parent task called "Redesign Website"
> underwhich are the tasks for all the pages I need to
> redesign.  In many cases, I work on several pages at
> the same time.  In other cases though, a page can only
> be worked on after another page is done.  
> 
> Right now I'm the only person working on this website,
> and so I created an object under resources that
> represents myself and the time/schedule that I have to
> work on the website.  In the future, other people may
> be working on this website with me.  Currently though,
> all the tasks are assigned to me because I am the only
> worker.
> 
> Here is my problem though.  The "Redesign Website"
> parent task only shows the time of the longest task. 
> I understand that I can make one task a predecessor of
> another, and then the parent task then shows a longer
> time, but the problem with this is that the tasks are
> NOT dependant on each other.  If another developer
> should begin helping me, I should be able to assign
> him tasks and see the total time to completion go
> down.
> 
> Examples of what I would expect:
> (where JWB and PHB are workers.  JWB works 8 hours a
> day, PHB works 2 hours a day) 
> Website Redesign One - 1 day, 2 hours
>    Page A - JWB - 3 hours
>    Page B - JWB - 3 hours
>    Page C - JWB - 2 hours
>    Page D - JWB - 1 hour (starts after the finish of
> page C)
> 
> (In this case, JWB has 10 hours worth of tasks, which
> takes him 1 day plus 2 hours to complete with his
> schedule)
> 
> Website Redesign Two - 1 day, 1 hour
>    Page A - JWB - 3 hours
>    Page B - PHB - 3 Hours
>    Page C - JWB - 3 Hours
>    Page D - JWB - 1 Hour (starts after finish of Page
> C)
> 
> (In this case, JWB has 7 hours worth of tasks, which
> takes him only 7 hours, but PHB has 3 hours worth of
> task, which takes him a day plus an hour to complete)
> 
> In Website Redesign 1, Planner shows the time to be 3
> hours (not 1d2h).   If there were 3 different people
> working on each task, then it might only take 3 hours
> because they can work in parallel.  but 1 person must
> work serially, and thus it takes him 1d2hours.   Pages
> A, B, and C can be done in any order, so making tasks
> dependant on each other does not seem the right thing
> todo. However, they cannot be done in the same block
> of time by the same person.
> 
> So that is my situation. I hope I explained it well
> enough. What is the best way to represent this sort of
> thing in planner?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jacob
> 
> 
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Christoph Begall <ramirez johalla de>