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Actual number of days working on the task VS period of time to complete the task
Hi All, You may find my question stupid, but after a long hassle, I decided to ask for help. Given: Say I input a new summary task for the project and say this summary task has 5 tasks. The ti...
ICNARC261,
If I may add to Dale's excellent answer. One of the things that confuses many new users of Project is the difference between duration and work. As Dale noted, duration is the time span of a task. Work is the effort one or more resources perform to accomplish a task. If a single resource works full time on a task, then the duration and work will be equal.
One other thing I'd like to clarify that often is misunderstood by new users . Summary lines are NOT tasks, they are simply a summary of performance tasks under them. Summary line should have no resources assigned and no predecessors or successors.
John
If I may add to Dale's excellent answer. One of the things that confuses many new users of Project is the difference between duration and work. As Dale noted, duration is the time span of a task. Work is the effort one or more resources perform to accomplish a task. If a single resource works full time on a task, then the duration and work will be equal.
One other thing I'd like to clarify that often is misunderstood by new users . Summary lines are NOT tasks, they are simply a summary of performance tasks under them. Summary line should have no resources assigned and no predecessors or successors.
John