Setting up work effort that is different from Duration

[JenIng]

I'm looking for a way that I can set a duration of 1 week, but with a work
effort of 2hrs. What I mean by this is, I have one week to complete a task,
but it will only take me 2hrs to actually complete this task. It may be
something I do in one sitting, or it may be something that I work on two or
three times that week.

Does anyone else have this type of project setup and how do you get MS
Project 2003 to comply with this type of setting. Right now all I can do is
say the 1week duration is 40hrs worth or work (but in my case its really only
2hrs, and I just have a week to complete the two hours worth of work b/c I
will have other tasks on other projects happening at the same time).

Any suggestions are appreciated.

 

[Jim Aksel]

Work and duration are two different fields, as you discovered.

Work=Duration x Assignment Units.

If you change the task type to "Fixed Duration" you can type 5d for duration
and then assign 2 hours in the work column. What Project will do is spread
two hours of work over the five days. The effect is your resource units
becomes 2/40= 5%

If you need to get more granular that that, switch to the Task Usage View
and you can key the hours on the exact days desired. The key for you is
"Fixed Duration" for the task type.
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[JenIng]

Thank you Jim! I believe this is what I needed.

Work and duration are two different fields, as you discovered.

Work=Duration x Assignment Units.

If you change the task type to "Fixed Duration" you can type 5d for duration
and then assign 2 hours in the work column. What Project will do is spread
two hours of work over the five days. The effect is your resource units
becomes 2/40= 5%

If you need to get more granular that that, switch to the Task Usage View
and you can key the hours on the exact days desired. The key for you is
"Fixed Duration" for the task type.
--
If this post was helpful, please consider rating it.

Jim

Visit http://project.mvps.org/ for FAQs and more information
about Microsoft Project