Resources - How to - Recalibrate shared resourses

[Maglez]

Hello,

When I assign 2 engineers to a task of 4 days, that task gets reduced to 2
days, this assumes that 2 people are able to do a job twice as fast, but I
know that those 2 engineers working together produce as 1.7 men instead of 2.

How do you guys take this into account? Is Project able to recalibrate those
resources in the way I want?

Let me explain the way I do it and you guys can correct me...

I have my resources added through the Resource Sheet, in there, a resource
has a Max Units of 100%. However, on the Task Information, under the
Resources tab, I add the 2 resources I want to work on that task and I change
their Units to 85%, this will do that task at 1.7 rate, so the 4 days task
will be done on 2.35 days instead of 2 days.

Is this the correct way of accounting for this? Should I have something else
into account?

Thank in advance for any response, comment or link.

Regards,
Miguel Gonzalez.

 

[davegb]

Hello,

When I assign 2 engineers to a task of 4 days, that task gets reduced to 2
days, this assumes that 2 people are able to do a job twice as fast, but I
know that those 2 engineers working together produce as 1.7 men instead of2.

How do you guys take this into account? Is Project able to recalibrate those
resources in the way I want?

Let me explain the way I do it and you guys can correct me...

I have my resources added through the Resource Sheet, in there, a resource
has a  Max Units of 100%. However, on the Task Information, under the
Resources tab, I add the 2 resources I want to work on that task and I change
their Units to 85%, this will do that task at 1.7 rate, so the 4 days task
will be done on 2.35 days instead of 2 days.

Is this the correct way of accounting for this? Should I have something else
into account?

Thank in advance for any response, comment or link.

Regards,
Miguel Gonzalez.

If you're going to track to that level of detail, that's the way to do
it.