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Hours v Days - A little advice required on managing multiple projects concurrently
Tony_Platts,
Sounds like a perfect application for a fixed duration task. In your example, set the fixed duration to 3 days and set the work to 3 hours. When you assign a resource at 100% Project will linearly spread the 3 hours over the 3 day period. Whether the resource actually works 1 hour each day or 3 hours on any of the 3 days doesn't matter, you've captured the intent.You may also find this thread and discussion helpful:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/project/fixed-duration-task-effort-driven-why-is-the-3rd-resource-set-at/m-p/3256500
Hope this helps.
John
Tony_Platts,
Sounds like a perfect application for a fixed duration task. In your example, set the fixed duration to 3 days and set the work to 3 hours. When you assign a resource at 100% Project will linearly spread the 3 hours over the 3 day period. Whether the resource actually works 1 hour each day or 3 hours on any of the 3 days doesn't matter, you've captured the intent.
You may also find this thread and discussion helpful:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/project/fixed-duration-task-effort-driven-why-is-the-3rd-resource-set-at/m-p/3256500
Hope this helps.
John
Sorry John, I think I need a little more help if you can assist.
I've set the task back to Automatically Scheduled. I've set the task type to fixed duration. The duration is set at 1 hour, the length of time to do the task. How do I allocate the two days, which is the amount of time we've allowed the engineer to perform that 1 hour task?
Many thanks.
Edit: Sorry, I've re-read your message and I've set the duration to 3 days. Still not seeing where I update the "Work" to 1 hour.
Hopefully this example will answer your latest questions. I first set the task type, then the duration, then the work, and then assigned the resource "Joe" at 100%. Doing so let's Project calculate the actual assignment level to meet the duration and work values (i.e. 13%). This is the result in the Task Usage view.
John
- That's great. Thank you so much for all of your help.
- Tony_Platts,
You're welcome and thanks for the feedback.
John