![]() ![]() ![]() After all, you probably don’t want more than two people writing the report anyway. If you decide that the reality of work on this report is that the two hours needs to be spread over two days on the calendar, you can change the duration to two days-without changing the number of people assigned to write the report. This task types reflects most task realities in any project.Įxample: You have one person assigned to write a report that should take only two hours to write. When the work changes on a task, the duration changes, but not the number of people. This setting assumes the number of people assigned to the task (units) is known and you don’t want it to change, even if duration changes. The table below summarizes the task type and the impact on the schedule. Mastering it will help grow your expertise as a project manager once you understand how to control task durations with task types. People stumble over this all the time, so don’t be discouraged if you don’t get it right away. For a quick refresher read How Project schedules tasks: Behind the scenes. But before you read on, make sure you understand the difference between the three pillars of Project scheduling: work, duration, and units and how they relate to each other. Fixing one of these values gives you powerful control over your schedule. Let’s look at the three task types more closely. Here’s a handy table to help keep all the moving parts of the scheduling formula in mind. This applies to both automatically and manually scheduled tasks. ![]() Fixing one of the values places a priority on that value by telling Project not to change it when the other two values change. Setting a task’s type allows you to “fix” (or make unchangeable) one of these values. Project uses a scheduling formula that relates the three values of work, duration, and assignment units: A real-world example of controlling the timing of tasks ![]()
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