Professional version only
Work View
- Task Name: Name of the task.
- Type: See Advanced tasks
managment for information on tasks types
- Effort Driven: The duration
of a task shortens or lengthens as resources are added or removed from a task,
while the amount of effort necessary to complete a task remains unchanged.
- Low
Work: The Low work units for task for the current schedule Base
- Work: The Base
work units for task for the current schedule
- High Work : The High work units
for task for the current schedule
- Resource: Enter or select a resource to assign
it to the task.
- Low Work Result: Calculated Low results for work
- Base Work
Result: Calculated Mean results for work
- High Work Result: Calculated High
results for work
You can enter tasks as work rather than duration. The Work view shows the total
work of all resources assigned to a task.
- On the Schedule tab, in the Schedule Views group, click
Work.
- Select the Task type: fixed units, fixed duration, or fixed work. The same
information can be defined using Advanced tab of task information dialog.
- Check the Effort driven flag if the task is effort driven (default value).
Effort driven task can be defined in the Advanced tab of Task Information dialog
box..
- Enter low, base, and high work for the selected task. Units for work are
defined in the Schedule tab > Settings and Options
group> Options>Duration tab. Duration and
units for the task will be calculated based on task type.
- For probabilistic calculations, work
is always correlated with duration. Seed and distribution of the duration is
used for work as well. Therefore seed and distribution for work in not entered.
- You may view work assigned to the particular resource in Resource tab of task
information dialog.
See
also
Advanced Task Management
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