Task Weighting

[Tracey]

I have 3 main sections in my project plan. Each one has adifferent weighting
of importance to the overall project. I have looked at Pert Analysis, but
this is not what I am looking for. Is there a way of weighting task
importance as a % of the total project?

 

[Steve House]

Not really. And conceptially that would be tricky to pull off. Projects
always produce a deliverable of some sort at the end, creating it is what
the project is all about. All of the tasks in the project contribute
content to that deliverable. If any component of the deliverable isn't
finished, the deliverable itself isn't finished either. So if any task
isn't done, the project isn't done. As a result, all tasks are equally
important because they all have to be completed, without exception, for the
project to be successful. Now I can see a weghting applied that says "if we
have to make a choice, we want task X to be done before task Y" but that's a
different issue than 'task importance' and is handled by the task priority
setting - task information, general tab - where higher numbers indicate
those tasks are more important to have finish early than lower numbered
tasks if it turns out they're competing for resources and can't happen
together.

HTH