How to make all working hours as Overtime hours in MS PROJECT 2010?

Hi,

I have a question from one of my Blog Readers! Here it is:

“About overtime, I tried to apply 12 hours a day on Saturday and Sunday, it’s a 2 day work (driving car) and It allocates 24 hours on Saturday. Both days are dayoff (rest time), so it’s 24 hours overtime rate. Is there a way to allocate 12 hours a day?”

Let’s do it!

I will create two Tasks in MS PROJECT 2010:

Now I will put Saturday 20.10.2012 as a Start Date for the first Task:

I will add John as Resource with $100 as Standard Rate, and $200 as Overtime Rate:

and finally I will assign John to both my Tasks:

Now I will use Work Table, and I will put 12 hours per day, instead 8:

Now I am going to look at the Detailed View:

and I will get:

I will put 12 hours per day instead of 8:

Now I will switch to the Detail View:

I will click at the bottom part of the screen, and then:

and I will get:

Now I will put in Ovt. Work 12 hours:

and I will get:

John is no more overallocated!

Let see a Cost Table:

and I will get:

John will work 12 hours per day (Saturday and Sunday) and his Overtime Rate is $200! So 12 X $200 = $2400 per day!

And that’s it!

Regards!

Link them for now!

Now I will put Sunday 21.10.2012 as a Start Date for the Second Task:

So I am making Sunday as a working day!

Now I will remove Link between this two Tasks and I am going to put Saturday 20.10.2012 as a Start Date for the first Task, again:

and I will connect them:

About Nenad Trajkovski

Location: Zagreb, Croatia Occupation: Project Manager Interests: Project Management and MS PROJECT He was born in Zagreb, Croatia at 1963. After completing his college he started working on projects in different business areas (banking, manufacturing, automotive industry, distribution, oil companies, etc.) developing and implementing ERP systems into different companies. He has got a lot of experience working with people in different business processes and also possesses great knowledge in information technologies and financial services. Today he works as a business consultant, adn Project Manager in PERPETUUM MOBILE d.o.o. Zagreb. He is a regular lecturer for Project Management in MS Innovation Center in Varaždin, Logosoft Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina and SEAVUS GROUP in Skopje Macedonia. He was named the best lecturer of WINDAYS 2008 while his lecture was also voted as the best. In addition, he was in TOP 10 lecturers at the MS SINERGY 2009 and MS VISIA 2009, 2010. Shares first place as the best lecturer of KulenDays 2009 and 2010 and PMI Conference 2009 in Zagreb. He is also a regular lecturer in the MS Community. He is a Certified Accountant and a PMP (Project Manager Professional) and a PMI-RMP (Risk Manager Professional), MCP, MCT, and Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist - Microsoft Project 2010. From 01.01.2012 awarded with MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Proffesional - Microsoft Project)!

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4 Responses to How to make all working hours as Overtime hours in MS PROJECT 2010?

Camilo Campillo says:

August 4, 2016 at 3:41 am

Hi Nenad,

I’m very happy to find this blog, it has proven to be very useful.

Very interesting post but somehow I got a different result

One question:
Every time I allocate the whole 12 hours to overtime the Duration column turns into 0 and the start and finish dates and time are the same. When I manually change the duration to 12 hours no it’s assuming that I will be working 12 hours of normal time and 12 hours of overtime.

Second question:
Have you considered doing videos instead of screenshots, it would be easier for us to understand and I guess you would save time.

Thanks a lot!

- Nenad Trajkovski says:
  
  August 9, 2016 at 1:26 pm
  
  I just wrote a post about it.
  
SAN (@longinlife) says:

November 21, 2012 at 7:27 am

Tell me the end time of your shift?

SIR,
PLEASE HELP ME IN MAKING A NIGHT SHIFT CALENDER WITH A DETAIED EXAMPLE WITH A BREAK DUARTION 01:00 AM TO 02:00 AM AND THE START TIME OF THIS SHIFT WILL BE FROM 06:00 PM IN MS PROJECT 2010.

- Nenad Trajkovski says:
  
  December 10, 2012 at 3:06 pm
  
  I will write a post about that! All resources are working at his shift? for all Tasks or just for some?
  
  Give me an answer ASAP, and I will give you an answer!