How to account for 2 similar resources where one works faster than other

[mark575757]

Hi,
A task takes 4 days for one programming resource. You add another
resource to it so it now goes down to 2 days. However, the other
programmer should always only be 60% as efficient as programmer 1.

How do you set 'similar' resources, where one is 'more' or 'less'
efficient than the other?

Thx.

 

[mark575757]

Hi,
A task takes 4 days for one programming resource. You add another
resource to it so it now goes down to 2 days. However, the other
programmer should always only be 60% as efficient as programmer 1.

How do you set 'similar' resources, where one is 'more' or 'less'
efficient than the other?

Thx.

Also, keep in mind I cant just change hours/day in the calender, as
both are paid for an 8 hour day, etc... Its just that for a given
programming task, this resource is only 60% as efficient as the other.
But on another programming task where these two are working together,
they might both be equally efficient.

 

[Steve House [MVP]]

There really is no satisfactory way to take into account slight differences
in efficiency like that. I'm not really sure it matters in a context such
as you describe anyway. When you put two resources together on a task like
that, it implies that they are working together as a unit, a team,
interacting with each other on the task. Thus the efficiency that governs
progress will be the efficiency of the team and not its individual members.
IF they are dividing up the work of the task and working on their portions
independently, so A finishes his part in 4 days while B does his is in 6,
for example, you really have two different, albeit similar, tasks and they
should be listed separately in the plan. Remember, you always should try to
have the resources you plan to put on the task in mind when you estimate the
durations in the first place.