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A have a project plan and had about 300 lines as was progressing through project the % Work complete was showing as 20%. I have added a further 200 lines, and increased the length of the project. T...
- parlisingn,
Duration doesn't necessarily "map" back to actual work. For your server example, it sounds like you should use fixed duration as your task type. Duration is entered as a week. The 3 hours of labor (work) to accomplish that task may be linearly spread over the week, occur all on the first day, all on the last day or any combination thereof.
John
Thank you John for your help.
We have a seperate spreadsheet to calculate the hours per week a resource will work on the project and i can update that based on timesheet entry. So for example, the project may take 10 people, 1000 hours. I can see at any point of time what the actual hours has been entered and so some calculations from that.
With MS Project we use duration for a given task. Build a server may take 3 hours to build but may take a week to actual do based on availability of resource and other factors. So on my project plan, every task is based on duration and doesnt necessarily map back to actual work. I update the task based on what the resource tells me, e.g. i have done 50% of work or work is complete then mark the column in project. Which is probably not the right way to do it.
i may take up the linkedin course on MS Project to see if i need to change my approach
We have a seperate spreadsheet to calculate the hours per week a resource will work on the project and i can update that based on timesheet entry. So for example, the project may take 10 people, 1000 hours. I can see at any point of time what the actual hours has been entered and so some calculations from that.
With MS Project we use duration for a given task. Build a server may take 3 hours to build but may take a week to actual do based on availability of resource and other factors. So on my project plan, every task is based on duration and doesnt necessarily map back to actual work. I update the task based on what the resource tells me, e.g. i have done 50% of work or work is complete then mark the column in project. Which is probably not the right way to do it.
i may take up the linkedin course on MS Project to see if i need to change my approach
parlisingn,
Duration doesn't necessarily "map" back to actual work. For your server example, it sounds like you should use fixed duration as your task type. Duration is entered as a week. The 3 hours of labor (work) to accomplish that task may be linearly spread over the week, occur all on the first day, all on the last day or any combination thereof.
John
Duration doesn't necessarily "map" back to actual work. For your server example, it sounds like you should use fixed duration as your task type. Duration is entered as a week. The 3 hours of labor (work) to accomplish that task may be linearly spread over the week, occur all on the first day, all on the last day or any combination thereof.
John
- parlisingh,
You're welcome and thanks for the feedback.
John - thank you,