relation between work and duration?
relation between work and duration?
(OP)
Hello friends,
as a newbie I try to plan as I ever did (on paper): Define resources (persons), estimate work hours of each sub-task and then - expect to see the duration of the task.
But the program only shows me under "Duration" the longest work time of all the related sub-tasks, but not the added work time of all related sub-tasks.
What do I have to do?
as a newbie I try to plan as I ever did (on paper): Define resources (persons), estimate work hours of each sub-task and then - expect to see the duration of the task.
But the program only shows me under "Duration" the longest work time of all the related sub-tasks, but not the added work time of all related sub-tasks.
What do I have to do?





RE: relation between work and duration?
Duration is calendar duration of a task
TTFN
RE: relation between work and duration?
Bernard Ertl
www.interplansystems.com
- eTaskMaker Project Planning Software
- ATC Professional Turnaround Management Software
RE: relation between work and duration?
but...I just have inserted the "work" column, and I have put the planned work hours in there. And I marked the pre-defined persons (are able to work no more than 8 hrs daily) in the "resources" column.
Now what I expected was that the work to be done by the distinct resources would give the correct duration. P.ex. Task 1 needs 5 hrs work, task 2 needs 7 hrs and task 3 needs 4 hrs, all done by resource "Mr.A". So the duration should be the added time, i.e. 12 hrs. But the program calculates 7 hrs, as if resource A would do the tasks in a parallel way (or as if I had planned to do the work each by a different resource)
Because I cannot believe that MSproject is not able to handle this - What do I have to preadjust?
There is a way to schedule it using the "predecessors" function, I know, but this should not be the comfortable way.
best regards!
RE: relation between work and duration?
To change that, you need to "link" tasks in a serial chain, using the "Predessors" column.
TTFN
RE: relation between work and duration?
By studying the program I found a way to do as I think to:
Resource leveling hour by hour, looking for overallocations. This seemes to work.
RE: relation between work and duration?
But when you have different resources for each, again will show only the total duration as the longest task. So what should be done is a combination: Logically link the tasks (as IRstuff said), and then, resource leveling.