Hello, While I am familiar with reading various forms of schedules, (MS Project, Primavera, Excel), I am admittedly not proficient at manipulating the software. In trying to educate myself thorugh YouTube, I have found that all of the instructional videos regarding contouring depend on assigning resources. This approach does not work for my project. The scenario is:
- I have a fixed end date for the project
- I have a total amount of manhours for the project that have been broken down into the respective activities and the defined manhours per activity
I am trying to see how many workers I need based on the above parameters. As this is a construction project, I am not interested in putting resource names and assigning a person to each task. Simply put, the number of workers cannot define the duration of the project, the duration of the project defines the number of workers.
Would anyone have some insight or instruction on how I accomplish this in MS Project 2016? And resultantly, provide instruction on how to plot the histogram graph? And finally, how to smooth the histogram for a consistent crew size, (not 5 people one day, 22 for the next day, then 9 the next, etc)
I appreciate all participation. Thanks.