"duration" and "work duration"

[slippymississippi]

These two fields appear to always be the same ... do they ever become
unequal?

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Slippy --

I like to describe Duration as the "window of opportunity" during which a
task will actually be performed. Duration is measured by default in working
days. Work is the actual effort expended to perform the task, measured by
default in hours.

Duration and Work can be two different values. For example, an executive
has 5 days to perform a review, but will actually work only about 4 hours to
do the review. On this task, the Duration would be 5 days and the Work
would be 4 hours. Hope this helps.

 

[Rod Gill]

I'm not aware of a field Work Duration, Just Work.

They are the same when you assign resources at 100% but as soon as you
assign resources at less or greater than 100% then the two values differ.