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I have a several tasks in ms project 2010 which have two resources working on them, but they must work together. (Imagine carrying a piano, one person cannot lift one end on Saturday and the other person lift his end next Tuesday). I cannot seem to get project to recognise such a task in team planner. As I said, there are lots of them and each time I move one resource's allocation, the other person's stays where it is, creating a split task. I'm losing track of keeping all these tasks on the same day, not to mention the fact that I cannot use auto leveling, as it put them all over the place. Is there any way of telling project that the two assigned resources must be allocated at the same time, and that a move in one must be mirrored by a move in the other?
Thanks
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Thanks everyone for the responses. I still find it baffling that such a flagship (and expensive!) piece of software lacks so many fundamental features (there are many others I've discovered), but at least there are some experts such as yourselves willing to find ways round them.
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isaacson,
As Julie notes, Project has no functionality to do what you want, at least not in the way you're asking. I see a couple of possibilities. First, this could be done with some VBA but it wouldn't necessarily be trivial. Another thought was to create resource groups for those resources you want to pair, so instead of saying Joe and Bill are assigned to move the piano, set up a Team1 resource that consists of two people, in this case Joe and Bill. Then you assign Team1 to the piano task.
Granted, the latter approach gets a bit messy if Joe and Bill also have other individual tasks. It depends on your overall plan structure as to how "challenging" that will be. You might be able to accommodate this by assigning the Team1 resource at 100% (i.e. one half the team) to those individual tasks and then using leveling to avoid overallocation, or manually edit the overallocation conflicts. Of course, you wouldn't be able to identify which half of the team resource was assigned to an individual task.
One other fringe idea pops into my head (that's the problem with asking a question on the weekend, you get the really off-the-wall ideas). It might be possible to set up a custom work calendar for the paired resources. It would take some effort because you would have to edit each resource's calendar anytime a change was needed.
Just some wild thoughts.
John
You're welcome and thank you for the feedback. Fell free to post other questions about the "fundamental features" and we'll try to help.
Hi John,
The idea of a calendar is not that off the wall - in fact I was going to suggest it as well. As you note, it takes care and feeding to maintain the calendar with non-working time - but it can be done and assigned to the task as a task calendar, ensuring the "scheduling ignores resource calendars" is selected.
Julie
Sorry, no. This has been a long-standing need and request but there isn't an automatic way of dealing with your requirement.
If you are using leveling, ensure the option "Leveling can adjust individual assignments" is off - but you will still need to make manual adjustments for tasks being adjusted by non-working time.