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Assigning resources with effort-driven and non-effort-driven scheduling

Assigning resources with effort-driven and non-effort-driven scheduling

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Assigning resources with effort-driven and non-effort-driven scheduling

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- 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 things happen. First of all, the work get's divided between the project manager…

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