Re: General Task Question Please Help

Actually I did spend some significant time yesterday reading through help and
other tutorials. Andrew gave me the breakthrough with the Window\Split in
the Ghantt chart view. As I replied to his post never have I seen
Window\Split provide such a key piece of functionality. It goes completely
against the grain of a well established Microsoft functional point.
Window\Split never supplies an new interface but rather another view on the
existing interface. Very counter intuitive and should be available through
the right click menu on the Ghantt Chart itself.

I will have a look at mikes tutorials though.

Cheers
Keith

"JulieS" wrote:

Hello Keith,

I think some of the frustration you may be having is some difference in
terminology that Project uses versus how you are using it. I assume you
are saying the following:
1 task which you will allow 2 resources 1 week to complete. The total
amount of work (effort) for the resources is 8 hours and you want each
resource to perform half of the work -- or 4 hours each.

So, to Project:
1 task with a *duration* of 1 week
2 resources each assigned at 10% assignment units to allow them to
spread his/her 4 hours of work out over the one week. Total *work* 8
hours.

I suggest taking a read through fellow MVP Mike Glen's excellent series
of "how-to" articles on MS Project at:

http://project.mvps.org/mike's_tutorials.htm

I think you'll find them a terrific resource for getting you up and
running in the correct way with Project. The time you invest in some
upfront reading will pay off :-)

I hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie
Project MVP

Visit http://project.mvps.org/ for the FAQs and additional information
about Microsoft Project

"Keith Chadwick" <KeithChadwick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:6B08C978-7557-4973-86AA-998784ABC61A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have been asked to set up the project schedule for an upcomming
project and
I am running into some frustration.

Simply put I have a task that will take 8 hours between 2 resources,
so 50%
allocated to each. But the task will be completed over a week. How
do I
show this is one task. Do I use the Lag feature? Or sub tasks one
for each
developer?

I have searched through the help and this basic information is not
provided.
Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers
Keith



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