How to tell Project a 3-hour tasks will be done in 3 days? 2

[saurater]

Hello,

Is there any way I can tell MS Project that Task X is a 3-hour effort tasks but it will start on Monday and finish on Wednesday? The point is I need to control costs. The resource will work 3 hours only but for that specific tasks he/she will work an hour a day.

Please note the same resource would work 3 hours a day in another task.

any idea?

 

[PDQBach]

Create the task, enter the amount of work (3h).
Assign the resource.
Set the task Type to "Fixed Work"
Change the Duration to 3 days.

As for starting on Monday, that can be handed (though I don't like this) by simply putting Monday's date in the Start date field for the task.

 

[saurater]

Hi, PDQBach's

That's it. It has worked fine.

Thanks a lot

 

[ProjectMonkey]

Regarding setting a task to begin on a particular date. PDQBach is right that you can simply enter the start date, but I also don't like setting start dates because it can have some important impacts on the critical path.

1. MS project may break links to the task in order to allow the fixed start date. This could take a crucial task off the critical path.

2. Fixing the start or finish date will cause project to create a constraint against the task. In this case a Start No Earlier constraint. This means that if the schedule improves the task won't reflect that improvement i.e. the task start date won't move.

I prefer a different approach which is to create a calendar for that resource and add the dates that the resource can't work on to the exceptions tab.

T Morphy

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