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Show impact of planned vs actual resource

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Thu, 2010-06-03 02:44
Paul Garland
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I’m trying to demonstrate the impact of a reduced resource on the planned duration of an activity.
The scenario is: an activity was planned to take say 10 hours using 10 men on site (100 man hours) This is the baseline planned duration. In the actual circumstances, only 5 men were allowed on site, so the work takes 20 hours. I want to show this not only in the gantt chart, thus demonstrating the cumulative affect on successor activities, again with less than planned resources but also in the resource histogram. I want to show a resource distribution with the planned and actual either side by side or in total as a stacked bar chart.

Any suggestions?

Paul
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Thu, 2010-06-03 04:47
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Paul Garland
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Thanks

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Thu, 2010-06-03 04:41
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Rodel Marasigan
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Paul,
That is easy. Create your baseline first using the 100hrs for 10 men. Use fixed/unit duration type so when adjusting time/unit it will automatically adjust the duration).
Then Maintain baseline and assigned as Project Baseline.
Adjust the schedule using 5men for 100hrs. See sample below:
Resource Impact
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