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Resources and cost allocation

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Thu 9 Oct 2008, 16:13 Delegate Patricia said...

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Resources and cost allocation

For a task with say a duration of 10 days, if I have a resource who is only contributing 50% of their time on 1 day to the task and other resources chipping in over the 10 days, without the task requiring 10 days of effort (its just that due to waiting for things reviews, availability etc we will take 10 days to deliver), how do I represent this on the gantt chart and calculate the cost? Thank you.

Fri 17 Oct 2008, 16:51 Trainer Andrew said...

RE: Resources and cost allocation

Hi Patricia

Thanks for your question. You might find it easiest to model this scenario by working in the Task Usage view and editing the allocated work for each resource assigned to the task.

You can access the view by going to View > Task usage

I hope this helps - let us know if you have any other questions.

Kind regards,

Andrew

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MS Project tip:

Link tasks using predecessor column - project

a. First, note ID number of the task you want to link to (predecessor). Then, in the predecessor column of the task you want to link to (successor), type the predecessor task's ID number.
b. The link will be a Finish to Start (the default type).
c. Or you can add in a code for a different relationship type
i. SS = Start to Start
ii. FF = Finish to Finish
iii. SF = Start to Finish
d. You don't have to type the task ID numbers in any specific order, but you must separate multiple tasks with commas.

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