Duration ?

[Lisa]

hello:

How can I make a task that will take 16 hours span across
a 2 week start to finish period?

thanks!!!1

 

[Bill Swihart]

Set the task as fixed duration with 16 hours of work. The 16 hours will be
evenly spread across the duration. If that is not what you want, you can
split the task to have x hours at the beginning and 16-x hours at the end
with "dead" time in the middle.

 

[Guest]

HELP ME!

I'm not smart enough to do either of what you told me to
do. I clicked on the task advanced tab and tolk it fixed
duration, but the start and finish dates will not allow a
span of time. It keeps defaulting to start and finish
date w/in 2 days of each other.

I clicked on the split task and it says "click mouse to
insert a split" but I don't know how to do this procedure.

HELP

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Lisa,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

You might like to have a look at my series on Microsoft Project in the
TechTrax ezine, particularly # 5—Working With Resources at this site:
http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc (Perhaps you'd care to rate it before leaving the
site, Thanks.)

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: <http://www.mvps.org/project/>

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP

 

[Steve House]

There are a couple ways to do this but I think the easiest to follow is this
....

You don't need to worry about the task type or anything like that, the
default "fixed units" type will work fine. Remember duration is the time
span from when work first begins until when it's done - it is NOT the
"window" during which the work might be done before some deadline. So
saying your task is 2 weeks duration and requires 16 man-hours of work means
that the resource is going to be spending a part of each day on it, but not
his full work day, spread out for a period of 2 weeks. For him to
accomplish 16 hours of work (2 workday's worth) output spread out over 2
weeks (10 workdays) means he is devoting, on average, 20% of his energy each
day to the task. Thus over the course of 10 days he creates the same output
that would have taken him 2 days if he had worked on it full-tilt. So enter
the task with either a 10 day or 2 week duration, they're the same thing if
you work a 5 day week, and assign the resource at a 20% assignment level in
the resource assignment window. Project will calculate the task's work for
you to be 16 hours and you're done.