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Number of Work Days v Duration Days
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Number of Work Days v Duration Days
I am using an MS Project file created by someone else, and am checking through the manday's calculated.
The number Work days is 24.5 whilst the number of Duration Days is 9.5.
I can reconcile the Duration days against the actual task - they are the same.
But individual tasks add up to 15. So why does it make it 24.5?
Please help!!
RE: Number of Work Days v Duration Days
Hi Sarah
thanks for your question. First just to check what are the columns you are tracking and where are you seeing the totals?
It sounds like you are in the Gantt view and have added the work column to your table. If you have turned on the Project Summary task you will see rolled up values in this row for the Duration and Work columns.
Duration shows the working day duration for the task/summary/project. Work shows the work to be carried out in that duration. It is generally calculated when resources are added to a task. That means that a one day task (Duration 1) with 2 people working full time on it would have 16 hours of work (8 hours for each resource)
I hope this helps you track down where the numbers are coming from - if you have any more questions please do let us know.
Kind regards,
Andrew
Thu 12 Feb 2009: Automatically marked as resolved.
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