Resource Leveling
Resource leveling is a process that helps you ensure that sufficient resources are available to carry out the activities in your project as planned.
During Resource Leveling, an activity occurs only when the demand for its resource can be met.
To accomplish this, tasks may be delayed to resolve resource availability conflicts.
Level resources in its projects to ensure that resource demand does not exceed resource availability.
During leveling activities, the resource requirements of all scheduled activities are compared to the maximum amount available at the time of leveling.
Steps for leveling processing:
1. Choose Tools, Level Resources.
2. Mark the Consider Assignments in Other Projects With Priority Equal/Higher Than checkbox and specify a priority number if you want to consider other project assignments when determining whether a resource is over allocated.
3. Check the Preserve Scheduled Early and Late Dates checkbox to preserve the calculated early and late dates during project scheduling.
4. Check the Level All Resource checkbox to level all resources within the project. To level specific resources, clear the Level All Resource checkbox and click Select Resource to select the resources you want to include in the leveling run.
5. Specify level preferences.
6. Mark the Log in file checkbox to record your leveling results in the log file, then click to specify the file name and location.
7. Click Level.
NOTE:-
I am always keeping it simple and basic so every one who are using P-6 ,should remember the proper steps in this field of work and may be sometimes the confusion can occur from any ones point of view. So, if there is any sort of confusion , you can write down in the comment segment . I hope it will help you people a lot as i am a Civil Engineer who believes that using P-6 will be easier and beneficial to all the other engineers.
Leveling is not so hectic. Many P-6 users try to use flat functionality to pull a very detailed picture they would like to see.
P-6 runs multiple algorithms while moving to a level complexity that very few people can easily understand.
Some use priority code
or only specific resource levels. Keep it simple and do not override it.
Leveling should be only after a well constructed and laid out plan has been
developed. It should be implemented at the end of the planning phase.
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