Task Duration Versus Actual Hours of Effort

[CookieBurkhalter]

I have a task that took two people 8 hours each consecutively. They worked
this actual time over 5 physical work days. When I entered the task into
Project 2007, I entered the task as Fixed Duration and I entered the two
resources with units set to 8h each, rather than a percentage. When tracking
the task, in Actual Start date I entered Monday and in Actual Finish date, I
entered that Friday. Project changed the units to 100% for each resource and
changed the actual end date to Tuesday.

How do I show that although the task was 8 hours for each person, they took
a week to finish it (because they are working on other things)?

Thanks in advance.

 

[vanita]

Hi

First in the beginning don't change the task to Fixed duration. These
changes are made only for resource assignment adjustment.

Second, if each resource is working 8 hrs in a span of 5 days. So, it is
working for 1.6 hrs in a day, i.e resource units assigned to that activity
should be 0.2 or 20%, because if your resource is following the default
calendar, then there are 8 working hours in a day. So, create an activity
with 5 days duration and default settings. Assign both the resources with 20%
units for each. Automatically resource usage will extend to 5 days and now
when you assign Actual dates your previous problem should not occur.

I hope it helps.
Vanita