work contour -- contoured and flat

[Jesse]

My project schedule is fixed duration and not effort driven. I've noticed for
a while that some tasks have a very high (2,000%...3,000%) units for
resources assigned to the task. I think I stumbled across the cause of the
high units.

I was looking at the Task Usage view and noticed that many of the resource
assignments for tasks had a work contour of contoured instead of flat. Upon
further research the task start and finish was different for these tasks than
start and finish in the assignment information. I suspect that the assignment
originally had start of 9/7 and finish of 9/14...I assigned a
resource....then I changed the finish of the assignment to 9/21....but the
assignment information for the resource assigned to the task still shows the
finish date as 9/14???

I have never noticed this before. Can someone tell me what I'm doing that is
causing a different in start/finish for the task and for the assignment?
What should I be doing to avoid this and keep the work contour flat unless I
specifically change it?

 

[Gary L. Chefetz [MVP]]

Jesse:

There's probably a number of things happening here, and you really haven't
provided enough descriptive information to give you an exact explanation,
but the fact that you stated that you're changing the finish date certainly
sends up a red flare. Can you give us a step-by-step to recreate your
observation? This would help.