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Night Shift and fixed hour work during weekends

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gary sabi
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I have a project where some work is done in night (only in night).Also, some areas have fixed hours where work can be done during the weekends. How do I take the both into account when scheduling ? Is there any calendar or something I can create or am I missing something.

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Rafael Davila
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Try the following:

For a basic free alternative try Free Screen Video Capture by Topviewsoft.

http://download.cnet.com/Free-Screen-Video-Capture/3000-13633_4-10859265.html or

http://www.topviewsoft.com/free-screen-video-capture.html

For a non free but more functional alternative try TechSmith Camtasia.

http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia-gslp.html?gclid=CPvF-7qRm7UCFQGvnQodpk8Agw

Hope this helps.

Evgeny Z.
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Rafael,

little bit off the topic. what tool do you use to capture screen video?

Regards.

Rafael Davila
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If you mean the same activity can be performed by a crew at night during regular work week while another team can work on the activity during daytime on weekends it means you need to model shift work by different resources on the same activity.

The activity shall have a calendar that is the union set of the work weeks of the two team calendars although a 24-7 calendar can do it.  You assign the activity this calendar and each team their respective calendars, you assign bot teams to the same activity and whenever the work is finished the activity will finish.

Some software cannot correctly model shift work when the duration of the activity is driven by how much work is produced by the resources on different shifts.

You can try yourself a simple scenario, so simple it consist of a single activity.

Activity 1 500 cm rock excavation
Resource 1 production 10 cm/hr and works Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday 10 hrs/day
Resource 2 production 15 cm/hour and works on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 10 hrs/day

If activity starts on Monday:
Monday =>> Resource 1 will produce 100 cm
Tuesday =>> Resource 1 will produce 100 cm
Wednesday =>> Resource 1 will produce 100 cm
Wednesday =>> Resource 2 will produce 150 cm
Thursday =>> Resource 2 will produce 50 cm in about 3 hours
Activity will take 3 days 3 hours.

If activity starts on Wednesday :
Wednesday =>> Resource 1 will produce 100 cm
Wednesday =>> Resource 2 will produce 150 cm
Thursday =>> Resource 2 will produce 150 cm
Friday =>> Resource 2 will produce 100 cm in about 7 hours
Activity will take 2 days 7 hours.

If your software is not capable of modeling the above, simple shift work on a single activity, then you are using the wrong tool. Every time the activity is delayed, the distribution of work is shifted, when you have many such activities and work on different hour shifts, different days it can become quite complicated. For a single shot you can use incapable software with manual distribution of work among shifts for anything else distributing work by hand is nuts.

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