Shared Task by Multiple Resources

[Dip]

Hi,

I have a 400 hour task (the same task) in which we have:
1) A planning engineer who has 50 hours of work at the beginning of the task
(hour #1-50).
2) 2 technicians who have 100 hours each during the middle (hour #51-150).
3) 1 technician and 1 engineer who have 80 hours (hour #1-80, and # 200-280).
4) 2 interior designers who have 50 hours each at(hour #250-300 , and
#300-400-at 50%).
All the others are at 100%.
From MS Project point of view, should I put all these under 1 task or
should I break into 4 or more subtask?

Thank you,
Dip

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

IMHO, you should break this up.
Frm my understanding of the word task, an action that produces an
identifiable deliverable is a task.
Your planning engineer, when he hands over to the technicians, will be
transferring some result, so his action is one or more tasks, etcetera.
I fail to see any advantage to mingle all ths onto one "task"
In Project, you can arrange all these task under one "summary task"
HTH

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[Dip]

Hi Jan:

Well! YES and NO!

YES:-
This task may certainly be broken down into subtasks with no subsequent
problems but may make the entire schedule look big when viewed or printed.

NO:-
The planning engineer would certainly hand over to the next guy(s).
But the technicians and engineers would need to work together "most of the
time". For example, engineer1 might work 50% of the time on this task but
engineer2 might be working 75% of the time on this task (over the entire
period).
Technician1 might be working 100% of the time on this task, but technician2
might be working 25% of the time on this task over period1, and 50% of the
time on this same task over period2, and 100% of the time on the same task
over period3.
Most of these guys would be working nearly 100% of their time on this same
task towards the end 20% of the task (last leg).

Please advise!
Dip