Fixing Weekly Hours on a Task

[Robin Roe]

Hi

Is there any wak of fixing the weekly work hours and duration on a task
regardless of what actual hours have been entered for previous weeks on that
task.

Example
Task 1 has a duration of 4 weeks.
Resource A is assigned for 40 hrs for the task (2 hrs per day)
Resource A enters 8 Hrs for week 1 (10 hrs expected)

Results -

With fixed Duration - All future days are now at 2.13hrs
With Fixed Units - Has extended task by one day
With Fixed Work - Has extended task by one day

This is what I would have expected, but is there a way to keep all future
hrs and duration as planned rather than project automatically recalculating
this for me?

Thanks

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Robin,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

Have you tried entering the Actual Work and Remaining Work?

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

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

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP

 

[Steve House [Project MVP]]

Why would you want Project to lie to you? Think about it a moment and you
will see it cannot help but recalculate if it is to give you plans that are
models of physical reality. Task is 20 days with 1 resource at 2 hours per
day for 40 man-hours of work required to do whatever the task needs to
accomplish. The output the task needs to accomplish is fixed in granite and
does not change as the resource works on it. The resource was supposed to
work 10 hours the first week but only did 8. There's 32 hours left to do.
One of two cases is true - either the task looks like it really requires 38
hours of work to do what needs to be done instead of 40 as originally
thought, in which case you revise the remaining duration, or it really does
require 40 hours of work and you need to adjust how the resource is expected
to proceed on it. He can either a: work a bit harder from now on out so he
gradually makes up for lost time and finishes when originally scheduled; or
b: work at the same rate per day and then he'll need to make up the lost
time by adding extra time at the end. The first is what happens with fixed
duration and the second is what happens with fixed work or fixed units.