MS Project

Hi Nicole

Thank you for your questions.

Re the 50% I think you will find it more accurate if you either assign your resources at the same time. Assigning one person then another is probably the reason you are finding the duration changes.

An alternative to this is to set the task to not change dates when you add more people as attendees. The feature that makes this happen is called Effort Driven Scheduling. To switch this off for one task double click it's name and on the advanced tab remove the tick from effort driven scheduling and click OK. To switch this off for future tasks go to Tools > Options > Schedule and this time remove the tick from New tasks are effort driven. You can choose OK to apply this setting to this plan only or choose set as default to apply to this and future plans.

If you would like to schedule tasks to fall at a certain time go to Tools > Options > View and set the date format to include a time as well.

Now if you set a start no earlier than constraint you can include a time alongside the date.

I hope this helps - do let us know how you get on.

Kind regards,

Andrew