How to assign resources to tasks

- [Voiceover] Suppose you've put the project tasks…in sequence, and estimated their durations.…You still won't know what your schedule…really looks like until you know how many people…you get to work on each task and when they're available.…Let's take a look at how tasks…change due to resource assignment.…Duration is the length of time between…when a task starts and when it ends.…Work, also called effort, is the number of…hours or days someone works on a task.…

If you get more or fewer people than you planned for,…your task durations will change.…Let's see how that works.…Suppose you estimated that the…conference center equipment installation…is going to take five people four days to complete.…How much work is that?…It's eight hours per day, per person,…so that's 40 work hours per day…for four days, or 160 work hours.…What if you only get four people?…How long will the task take then?…Get your calculator or abacus out and follow along.…

There's still 160 hours of work, but now…the team of four can only work 32 hours each day.…