Scheduling multiple resources on a task to finish quicker

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I’m new to Microsoft Project, but I think I have a problem with how Project
schedules resources. My scenario is:

A task is estimated to take 300 hours to complete. I have three resources
assigned to the task. Resource #1 starts immediately, resource #2 in a week
and resource #3 starts in two weeks. All three resources are available to
work on the task to completion.

It looks like Project is assigning 100 hours to each resource and does not
consider the task complete until the last resource (#3) finishes their 100
hours, which will take two weeks longer than the first resource. This means
during the last week of the task, Project thinks resource #1 and #2 aren’t
working at all.

What I want to happen is Project automatically adjusts the hours for each
resource to get the earliest possible finish date. If the effort (hours) is
adjusted or resources take vacation or sick days, Project should re-adjust
and give me the new finish date.

I have worked around the problem by creating three separate sub-tasks and
assigning a different resource to each sub-task and then manually playing
with the hours for each resource to get the earliest finish date.

What am I doing wrong?

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