Now the way that task B is set up is as a fixed work task. So my default is to keep the duration fixed and therefore if I add resource to it I’ll just get more work done. It’s a two day task.Īnd putting more effort on it will not automatically reduce its duration.
So what this says is this task is a fixed duration task. And very importantly the box to the right of that, Effort driven, was not checked. Now the reason that was the default option was because the task type was declared as fixed duration. Now let me stick with the default option and what I want to do now is to show you why that was the default option. It’s still only going to be 16 hours work but Jane and John only need to work half the time each. The third option, Reduce the hours resources worked per day, the units, but keep the same duration and work. So in that case we would have said well we’re still going to do 16 hours work but because we’ve got two people on it we can do it in a day. The first one was, Reduce the duration but keep the same amount of work. The default option there, the middle one, Increase the amount of work but keep the same duration. So let’s go over to that warning sign, click on the dropdown. Now note that Project has assumed that in assigning John I still want to spend two days on this task but by having that second person we’re getting twice as much work done. Now notice the little warning sign on the left there. I’m going to choose John and I’m going to say Assign. Which of these three options would you like to use when you apply that additional resource?įree Microsoft Project 2016 Training. And those three options correspond to the three options you saw in the previous section when Project 2016 said you’ve changed information about resourcing on a task. So with twice as much resource twice as much work gets done but in the same time.Īnother possibility is that we still want to get our 16 hours of work done and we still want to do it in two days but the fact that we’ve got both Jane and John working on it means that they only each need to devote half their time to it. One other option is that if John works on that task as well it will still take two days but they will do 32 hours work during that time. But there are a couple of other options as well. So instead of being a two day task it’s going to be a one day task. I say, “Jane, John is going to help you.” If I assign John to task A what do you think would happen? Now what may happen is you may look at it and say well obviously Jane is going to be able to get that job done in half the time. Now let’s suppose that I provide Jane with some help. So on task A Jane is doing 16 hours work, task B 16 hours work, C 16 hours work and so on. And Jane is working for eight hours a day. Currently they’re each two day tasks and a resource, Jane, is working on those tasks. Now in order to illustrate this I’m using a sort of dummy project, just a very simple project with three tasks in it, A, B, and C. And perhaps the most important thing to understand with Project 2016 is the different task types that can be involved in projects. In order to do that there are a couple of fundamental things that you need to understand.
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