Work Rollup-Level Totals

[WillW]

One of the project managers I work with showed me a project schedule into
which she has begun entering task estimates; she asked why the totals of most
rollup-level tasks are wrong. For example (this is one of many), a group
task has 3 sub-tasks of 2 days work each. But the roll-up total is 8 days.

I can't explain it. Where do I look? What am I missing?

Thanks,
Bill

 

[WillW]

Sorry -- I neglected to mention that I'm referring to the Work column in the
issue below.

A bit more information: the sub-tasks have resources that are less than
100% allocated.

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

There probably also is a resource assigned to the summary task which would
account for the extra work.
HTH

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[WillW]

Thanks -- I was just going to try to cancel this request. I just noticed she
did assign a resource to the summary task. When I removed it, the total
adjusted correctly.