Hi,
my Blog Reader is in trouble. He wrote:
”Hi Nenad,
I am in need of a favor from you. I am currently working with the MS project to accomplish the team utilization and also to forecast the team’s availability. I am trying to assign a Generic team (3 developers) . In the resource sheet have set the max % to 300%. But when I assign this resource to a task and set the works hours , it calculates the duration based on 100% units only. Do I need to go and change the units in the resource tab for each task to 300%. When the percentage is below 100% , it does calculate automatically from the resource sheet mentioned.”
First of all, what is Max Units in Resource Sheet? It is Maximal capacity that Resource can work per day on one or multiple tasks without over allocation. For example, if working hours in Calendar are from 0800 to 12:00, and from 13:00 to 17:00, with 8 hours working day, and it’s Capacity is 100% he or she can work 8 hours per day without over allocation. If it’s Maximal capacity is 50% he or she can work only 4 hours per day without over allocation, and if it’s capacity is 300% he or she can work 24 hours per day.
Now let me show this in MS PROJECT 2013! First, I will create one Task:
I will create two Resources: John with 50% Max Units, and Team A with 300% Max Units:
Now I will assign both Resources to the Task via Gantt Chart:
and I will get:
As you can see John will work only 50% (his Max units), but Team A will work not 300% but 100% instead.
Let’s take a look at the Task Usage View:
As you can see, John will work 4 hours per day (50%), and Team A 8 hours per day (100%).
If I want to assign Team A with 300% (it’s May units) I must put that amount manually:
Finally, I will get (in Task Usage View):
As you can see, now Team A will work 24 hours per Day!
To conclude, if You assign Resource to the Task, it’s maximal Capacity to this Task is:
- If Max Units in Resource Sheet is 100% = 100% for Task
- If Max Units in Resource Sheet is less than 100% = Max Units from Resource sheet for Task
- If Max Units in Resource Sheet is greater than 100% = 100% for Task
And, Max Units that is greater than 100% in Resource Sheet tells you how much Capacity that Resource has per Day, not how much will it work on single Task, unless you tell MS Project that you want that Resource to work more than 100% for that Task!
Regards!
Nenad Trajkovski 
Hi,
how i can create vacations for a team? because i have team with 385% capacity and every person is in vacation in other time..
you can not!
so what is your suggestion? if i have team..
You should use named based resources. As I told you, if your team have not the same Vacation or whatever exceptions you can imagine, then you can not use it in that way
You can set Resource Availability on Resource Information dialog. It can be used for manage vacations if you set reduced Units for specific times.
Is there a way to have the same resource – Team A work on multiple tasks and a place where I can change the “Units %” from 300% to 500% (or any other number) one in the project instead of changing it at EVERY task ?
https://ntrajkovski.com/2016/07/25/how-to-change-resource-assignments-for-multiple-tasks-in-ms-project-2016/