Re: Calculate effort for a short duration task between dates

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brotherescott_at_yahoo.com
Date: 02/08/05 

Date: 8 Feb 2005 06:06:02 -0800

I was thinking of using the deadline approach as you suggested but
everyone was telling me not to use had constraints because they can
cause problems later on. I think that this is a case where it is
needed.
I had tried another approach. I put in a build schedule block of time
and then put in a build task after it. I then put in a negative lag
time to push it up into the build block of time and then had the next
task in the list us both of these lines as predecessors. This allowed
me to not put a resource to the the build block of time but I could put
a resource onto the actual build time.
 It kind of works but I think I am going to try the deadline approoach
to see how it all works out.

Thanks
Scott

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