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Effort and Workload on Joint Tasks
Please can someone help us with the following scenario? 😊
Task A is scheduled next week, 8th to 12th May 2024, and has two resources assigned to it (Resource 1 & Resource 2) and the effort to complete the task is 4 hours. On Monday, in Project Pro Plan the PM updates the task to say 1 hour has been completed. Remaining work and % Work complete updates accordingly to show that there are 3 hours remaining until the 12th May. This three hours remaining is equally divided between Resource 1 & Resource 2 until 12th May.
In fact, Resource 1 completed the 1 hour of effort. Therefore, in reality, the split should be:
- Remaining hours – 3 hours
- Remaining hours for Resource 1 – 1 hour
- Remaining hours for Resource 2 – 2 hours
How can the PM make sure this happens so Resource 1 & Resource 2 have the accurate workload showing on their timesheet/task list for the remainder of the week?
Thank you in advance for your support 😊
- SPQR1965 --
The PM needed to enter the Actual Work for the resource assignment and not for the task. To do this, he/she should have applied the Task Usage view and then applied the Work table. In the Work table, he/she would be able to enter 1h in the Actual Work field for Resource 1. Hope this helps.
- SPQR1965 --
The PM needed to enter the Actual Work for the resource assignment and not for the task. To do this, he/she should have applied the Task Usage view and then applied the Work table. In the Work table, he/she would be able to enter 1h in the Actual Work field for Resource 1. Hope this helps.Dale_HowardMVP thank you for your swift response
Dale_HowardMVP We have tried that. Inserting 1.05 hours as shown below. However, when we save and change the view to a Gannt it has not picked up upon the 1.05 hours. Any ideas please? Thank you.
- SPQR1965 --
Did you change the Actual Work to 0h on the task in the Gantt Chart view before you entered the 1h for the resource assignment in the Task Usage view? I should have mentioned that would be the preliminary step before entering the Actual Work in the Task Usage view
Dale_HowardMVP Thank you that seems to have worked
