Re: [Planner] Tasks assigned to same resource scheduled concurrently?

[Tom Miller <trm xpedion com>]

Roberto,

    Good point(s).   Um, are there any nice tools which do
    Critical Chain stuff?

    Tom

On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 09:35, Roberto Leibman wrote:
> <rant>
> It's funny that what's perfectly obvious to someone new to project 
> management is ignored by most experts.
> 
> I have to agree with Josep that any tool that does project management 
> has to make resource constraints a first-order problem, and not an 
> afterthought. I've yet to see any widely used tool that does this; 
> Primavera, MS Project, etc don't do it, they all require you to go 
> through hoops to do resource leveling and most of the time you end up 
> having to create artificial temporal dependencies such as the suggestion 
> given to Josep. These dependencies are at best a workaround, but in 
> practice they can be detrimental to the project because they obscure the 
> possibility of doing tasks in parallel by the "simple" addition of 
> resources to a task, in practice, as the project progresses you figure 
> out that the link is artificial and often end up doing the task in 
> parallel anyway, thereby throwing your hands in the air and saying: 
> "screw this project plan", or even worse, spending another couple of 
> hours redoing the whole thing (and then an hour's meeting explaining the 
> "new and improved" project plan to the team.
> 
> Which is why there exist better methodologies than Critical Path 
> analysis (yeah, I know, I repeat myself) such as Critical Chain 
> management, that take into account resource constraints from the beginning.
> </rant>
> 
> Josep Monés i Teixidor wrote:
> 
> >El dj 03 de 03 del 2005 a les 13:56 +0100, en/na Max Lists va escriure:
> >  
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>You have to "link" the 2 sub task to tell task2 goes after task1.
> >>
> >>File attached.
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Ah Ok! I knew I could do it this way but I expected the software to do
> >that automatically, because tasks aren't conceptually sequential, it's
> >just a resource problem. If I assign, for instance, task2 to another
> >resource, I have also to remember unlinking it (and possibly unlinking
> >and relinking many tasks which depended on task2).
> >
> >Thanks very much.
> >
> >Josep
> >
> > 
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