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Assigning resources with effort-driven and non-effort-driven scheduling - Microsoft Project Tutorial
From the course: Microsoft Project 2013 Essential Training
Assigning resources with effort-driven and non-effort-driven scheduling
In Project Effort-driven scheduling means a task's total work stays the same as you add or remove resources. It's the norm because you often add resources to a task to get the work done in a shorter duration. However, meetings are one common example of tasks that don't use effort-driven scheduling. Meetings don't get shorter when you add people to the attendee list. The duration stays the same, so the total work for the task increases. So let's look at the Identify physical requirements task. When I select it, you can see that the Duration is 20 days and the Effort driven checkbox is turned on. Well, I've got the Relocation Project Manager assigned and with the duration of 20 days the work is 160 hours. Well let's see what happens when I add the relocation assistant to this task. I click the Resource Name cell, click the down arrow and then choose Relo Assistant. Now when I click OK, you can see a couple of things happen. First of all the work gets divided between the project manager…
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Understanding duration, work, and units3m 4s
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Assigning resources to tasks5m 8s
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Using Team Planner to assign resources3m 34s
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Finding overallocations3m 56s
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Assigning resources with effort-driven and non-effort-driven scheduling3m 14s
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Modifying resource assignments5m 49s
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Replacing resources on a task2m 47s
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