microsoft project training london - Task Assignment

Hi Marios

Try this approach and see if it produces the result you are looking for.

Based on the example you gave create a task with a duration of 5 days.

Next fix the task's duration and turn off effort driven scheduling so we have more control over Project. You can do this by double-clicking on the task, then from the task information dialogue box going to the Advanced tab. Change the task type to fixed duration, and take the tick out of Effort driven.

Next assign your resource. Project will assume your resource is working for 5 days x 8 hours or 40 hours of work in total (assuming your days are set to the default duration)

You can then either:

Add the work field to your table and reduce the 40 hours automatically allocated to this task down to 8. Project will then automatically spread the 8 hours work across the 5 days of the task.

Alternatively you could switch to the Resource Usage sheet, find your resource and the line representing the task it's been assigned to then replace the default work values with 5 entries of 1.6 hours. This would mean that your 8 hours of work have once again been spread over the 5 project day period.

Hope this helps. Do let us know if you have further questions.

Kind regards,

Andrew
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