project tracking

[cameron]

i would like to track a project with man hours and not by a calander, as the
project is not always worked on continuously from start to finish, budgets
and dealines are managed by man hours per project, can this be done with
project?

 

[davegb]

i would like to track a project with man hours and not by a calander, as the
project is not always worked on continuously from start to finish, budgets
and dealines are managed by man hours per project, can this be done with
project?

If I understand your question, you can enter the hours each resource is
working on each task and then track how many hours they've worked and
how many they have left. Is that what you want to do?

 

[cameron]

yes i would like to use man hours as you have suggested though when useing
the calander or 12/24hours time scale it does not correspond, this is because
the job may not be worked on for some days this inturn puts out deadlines
etc. i need the timescale to be in man hours and not days, weeks or 12/24
hours

 

[davegb]

yes i would like to use man hours as you have suggested though when useing
the calander or 12/24hours time scale it does not correspond, this is because
the job may not be worked on for some days this inturn puts out deadlines
etc. i need the timescale to be in man hours and not days, weeks or 12/24
hours

Don't know of any way to do that in Project. You might try doing it in
Excel.

 

[Steve House [Project MVP]]

The timescale can't be in man-hours because the timescale fundamentally is a
work schedule ... Joe is required to show up on Tuesday with the tools
needed to polish 100 widgets and it should take him about 3 days to do it.
You can track work and budgets on man-hours but there always has to be a
date component to any schedule of work. Remember Project is not simply to
record what has taken place, it is to schedule what is required to take
place and when it has to happen in order to fiinish the project on time.
It's proactive rather than reactive and knowing that 100 man-hoursd have
been worked and there's 400 to go doesn't give me much help in insuring we
meet the 1 September contracted delivery deadline if I can't also say WHEN -
dates and times - those required hours need to be worked.