Effort Driven against changing resource units

[fkr1972]

Dear all

The following is the definition in Program help of effort driven:

When a task is effort driven, Microsoft Office Project keeps the total task work at its current value, regardless of how many resources are assigned to the task.
When new resources are assigned, remaining work is distributed to them.

My question is:
Does the second sentence exclude changing a resource unit.
I mean if I have an effort driven resource using some resources; and I if I change the unit of one or more the assigned resources, will the task fix the total work acting as effort driven task or not?

Please advise me.

 

[JulieInMaine]

Hello,

Effort-driven only comes in to play when adding or subtracting named resource. If you originally had assigned Resource 1 at 100% and then dropped the assignment units to 50%, assuming the task was not Fixed Duration, the duration would increase.

If you have multiple resources assigned at differing assignment units, decreasing or increasing that resource's assignment units may not necessity change duration -- the question there would be which resource is the resource that finishes last.

The task form formatted to show Resource Schedule is very helpful for sorting the issue out.

I hope this helps.

Julie

 

[fkr1972]

Julie

The magic sentence is:

Effort-driven only comes in to play when adding or subtracting named resource.

Thank you very much.
I think I will gain big use from you and this forum.

Fakhri

 

[JulieInMaine]

You're welcome, Fakhri and thank you for the feedback.