Entering hours for a resource

[Jim M]

How do I enter hours for a resource & task? I don't want a % of resource; I
have hard hours for tasks. How do I see this when I assign a resource?

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi Jim,

There are a number of ways to do this.
One is to insert the column Work, fill in the work hours and only then
assign the resource; Units will be calculated.
You can also declare your task a fixed duration, not effort driven (in task
information, advanced), assign the resource(s) @ 100% then go to the task
usage view and key in the work numbers for each resource. That is what I do
when there are more than one resource on the task.

Hope this helps,

 

[Steve House [Project MVP]]

Is that really true that you have "hard hours?" What happens if you're
budgeted 10 hours for task X but when the resource starts to do the work
after 10 hours at it he finds he's only halfway done? Will he just stop and
walk away, leaving the deliverable uncompleted? That's what "hard hours"
implies will happen. Your project plan shouldn't be based on what the
powers that be say is an allowable amount of work. It should be based in
the best possible estimate you can come up with of what will actually be
required to do the work that needs to be done. If it's under what you've
been allowed, fantastic! But if it's over you need to renegotiate with
those who handed you the budgeted allowance. Otherwise you're setting your
project up for failure.

The assignment percentage is not "% of a resource." It is the RATE at which
the resource accomplishes useful man-hours of work, work output compared to
the time required to produce it. If he's assigned 50% to a 1 day task, it
doesn't mean you only have him 4 hours out of the the 8. It means that he's
going to actually work on that task 8 hours from the project plan's
perspective but for some unspecified reason he will only be able to deliver
4 man-hours worth of full-time equivalent work output.

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,
I beg to disagree
When he's 50% on the task you can use the other 50% on another task, so it
DOES mean he only works half the time on teh task.
In fact, for Project, he is planned on that task for 30 secs every minute.
Personally I think this is so weird that I always recommend to use 100%
allocation and if necessary make a specific calendar.

HTH