Duration and Resources

[Barny Blue]

I have understood most of the comments so far on fixed durations, etc. but
maybe someone can help me with this.

I have one task which is going to take 300 hours. I have entered this as a
fixed work task with a duration of 300 hours. Then I assign resources, there
are three and each has their own working calendar (one is a part time
worker). Project seems to be assigning each worker an equal share of the of
the work whereas I want to have the shortest possible duration - so my full
time resources should take a larger percentage of the task, right?? Wrong??

I have tried specifying fixed units, etc. but that all goes horribly wrong -
what I need to do is specify the work first, then specify the units and let
project calcuate the duration. How can I fix work and units?

thanks for any help,

Barny

 

[Gérard Ducouret]

Hello Barny,

<<one task which is going to take 300 hours. I have entered this as a fixed
work task with a duration of 300 hours>>
It seems that there is still a confusion between Duration and Work !!!
is "300h" the Duration or the Work ???

Anyway, an easy way to assign resources :
- Set the Duration to the length you want
- Set the task type to Fixed Duration
- In the Units cell of the "Assign resources" dialog, enter the amount of
work for the first resource : for ex. 100h (instead of Units)
- Do the same for the others resources, until the total amount of Work
reaches 300h.

<<How can I fix work and units?>>
Task type = Fixed Unit and Effort Driven

Hope this helps,

Gérard Ducouret

 

[Barny Blue]

Thanks Gerard,

The 300 Hours refers to the amount of work that needs to be done - so I
don't want to enter a fixed duration...I need to try and get the shortest
possible duration

Regards,

B

 

[Barny Blue]

Actually, I think I have sussed it by entering the duration, then fixed units
and setting the percentages for each resource.

Thanks for your inspiration, Gerard!

 

[Gérard Ducouret]

You are welcome and thanks for the feedback ;-)

Gérard Ducouret