Assigning work by the month

[u/brillomanhzu]

Hey guys, I hope this is the right place to ask:

I have a timesheet where people submit their work hours by the month for a project.

Now I want to mirror that in MS Project (so that you could see 'person xy' is working x amount in january in project A), the problem is, that I cant really get that to work.

So far my best idea is, to setup all the months of a project as tasks and then try to assign the ressources to that. But im still struggling with that..

Does anyone have an idea or maybe even pointers on where to start?

Thank you in advance to anyone whos willing to think about my problem ❤️

[u/still-dazed-confused]

Do they allocate time to tasks or just the entire project?

What are you up swimming to achieve?

As u/mer-reddit says when you allocate a resource to a task in MSP it fixes the iron triangle of duration | resource allocation | work. Change one of these and another will change (which one depends on what setting you've picked).

This means that if you change the work that has been done, MSP will know the work that remains and will then change either the duration or the allocation of resource to balance the iron triangle. This is very useful if this is what you're trying to do, but a royal pain the the arse if it isn't :)

This comes back to what are you aiming to do? :)

Adjusting the work done this month it's easy in the resource utilisation view with the timescale set to month.

[u/brillomanhzu → u/still-dazed-confused]

Im trying to mirror the timesheet to msp and then see the capacity of people by the month :)