How do I set 10 days effort in a 30 day period?

[Twinkletoes1971]

I have a task that is 30 days long and needs to finish by a specific date.
however the task is only 10 days work.

I need to get Project to let me leave the duration at 10 days and the start
and finish dates 30 days appart.

I've tried Fixed work and Fixed durations but it always reduces the task
length to 10 days.

Can anyone help?

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

Duration=10 days
Start no earlier than desired start date
Put a deadline on the latest finish date
Show latest finish as a column.
HTH

 

[Twinkletoes1971]

Thanks for the information, I'll give it a try.

Hi,

Duration=10 days
Start no earlier than desired start date
Put a deadline on the latest finish date
Show latest finish as a column.
HTH

--
Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
http://users.online.be/prom-ade/
+32-495-300 620

 

[Steve House [Project MVP]]

Think of it this way ... remembering a task is always an observable physical
activity. It can start after a certain point in time and has to finish
before another point in time. But the duration of a task is NOT the allowed
time between those two limits. After all, those allowed start and required
finish times aren't necessarily the times that the person doing the work
actually begins it or finishes it. The duration is the (working) time that
passes between when you see the resource actually do the first bit of work
until they step back from it with a statisfied "done!" look on their face.
If your task requires 10 days work and the resource doing it is expected to
devote their full attention to it once it starts, that task's duration is 10
days with a deadline 30 days after it could be started.

 

[Nairy]

Dear Jan,
I saw your answer to a friend , i'm having the same problem, and i want to
understand the last point you wrote (Show latest finish as a column.) ?? will
this make the duration as i want, where the start and finish dates are say
for example 10, and i need the duration to writ 5, is this the way ?

 

[Nairy]

Dear Jan,
did u receive my question???

Hi,

Duration=10 days
Start no earlier than desired start date
Put a deadline on the latest finish date
Show latest finish as a column.
HTH

--
Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
http://users.online.be/prom-ade/
+32-495-300 620

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi Nairy,

Well no, my approach is totally different.
In my view the task does not have a duration of 30 days, it has a duration
of 10 days and a deadline of 30 days after its start.
Now you should know thet Project always (this is not an option it always
does that) calculates for each task an early set of start/Finish dates but
also Late start and finish dates
So what I meant was exactly as I wrote it "Show late finish as a column")
In other words in a Task view such as Gantt Chart
Insert menu,
Select "Column"
Select the column "Late Finish".

If you want to act as Twinkletoes suggested (show duration as 30 days),
contrary to his belief, if you make the task type ficxed duration it will
stay that way even when you enter a work of 10 days. I wonder what made him
believe duration changes when you chaneg worlk on a fiwxed duration task.

Hope this helps,