work entered in seconds

[Nelson]

I would like to know if there is any way that I can create a gantt chart with
the activity's duration in seconds. The lowest time unit I can use now is in
minutes, but I would like to have activities in seconds.

Thank you in advance for the help!

Nelson

 

[Rod Gill]

Minutes is the smallest timescale available. Unless you pretend minutes are
actually seconds you're out of luck!

 

[Catfish Hunter]

I have to ask - Why would you want to schedule in seconds?

 

[Steve House]

Project is basically designed to schedule physical activities performed
by human beings. Even though it goes down to the minute, even that is
too small for practical projects. Most types of Projects adhere pretty
well to the 8/80 rule, which says that if many tasks turn out to be less
than 8 hours you're probably unrealisitcally micromanaging and if
they're over 80 hours they're too big to effectively manage.

 

[Nelson]

Hello Steve and others above,

I understand the practicality of scheduling in seconds vs. minutes or hours
vs days! What I wanted to do is to create a Gantt Chart of a time line that
I have in seconds. Creating such chart in Visio is somewhat of a pain, but I
can simply dump my activities into Project with the respective time and I
would have a nice Gantt Chart. (No practical reason other than getting a
graphical representation of a process that I have)

Thanks anyways.

Nelson

 

[John]

Hello Steve and others above,

I understand the practicality of scheduling in seconds vs. minutes or hours
vs days! What I wanted to do is to create a Gantt Chart of a time line that
I have in seconds. Creating such chart in Visio is somewhat of a pain, but I
can simply dump my activities into Project with the respective time and I
would have a nice Gantt Chart. (No practical reason other than getting a
graphical representation of a process that I have)

Thanks anyways.

Nelson

Nelson,
Project does schedule to the minute so I guess you could simply call a
minute a second. That works fine of course as long as everything in your
process is in seconds, beyond that the translation breaks down.

John
Project MVP