Semi-urgent help! - Event 'calculation' problem

[A Nony Mouse]

Hi all.

I'm building a project that has a particular task requires 500 hours of
'effort' that recurs quarterly.

So, in project, I created a task and set it's duration to 500 hours. So
this task shows a start date and an end date roughly 20 days later.

My goal is to be able to assign additional people (resources) to the task to
'shorten' it. I've made some resources in Project and, I thought, assigned
them to the specific task. However, the tasks end date has not moved. My
guess would be that as soon as I assign more than one person, the tasks end
date should start 'sliding' earlier and earlier (by half with two people
assigned, by more with three, etc).

Anyone have any hints for what I'm doing wrong or where I can look to start
troubleshooting? Thank you very much!

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi A Nony Mouse ,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

You need to have effort driven turned on. See my series on Microsoft
Project in the TechTrax ezine, particularly #10 - Multiple Resource
Assignments, at this site: http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc (Perhaps you'd care to
rate it before leaving the site, Thanks.)

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: <http://www.mvps.org/project/>

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP

 

[A Nony Mouse]

Mike,

Thanks for your post.... I guess I figured out where I was tripping.

It seems that if you set a task as fixed work, you have to add resources
'one at a time' in order to get Project to auto-shorten the total length.
If you assign to resources right off the bat, assumes that the task requires
XXX hours of work by both people (instead of half that much).

Thanks, Brian

 

[Mike Glen]

You're welcome, Brian - you got it!

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP