I'm using Microsoft Project 2000 and I must be having some trouble understanding a basic concept.
I am entering my information into Project in the following order; Task Name, Resources and then Work, on a task-by-task basis. I thought that if I had an 8-hours-of-work task that has 2 resources assigned at 50% each the duration should equal 1 day. In other words I'm assuming that if resources total 100% for a given task, that duration should equal work.
If you look at the attached file you'll see that Row 12 calculates 12-hours-of-work as 1.5-days-duration. Row 4 uses the same % of the same resources and calculates 12-hours-of-work as 3-days-duration. The only thing I can think of is that I formatted all of my tasks in Excel (more user friendly) and copied it into the Project worksheet.
I would appreciate anyone's help with this problem.
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I can't explain the events that led to this but if you examine the Resource Utilization view you will see that the resource "BPE - NK CA" is assigned 0 hours of work to the Requirements Definition task on line 4. this is the reason the task is taking 3 days. All 12 hours of work are assigned to the resource "SAP SD BA - Contractor" at a burn rate of 4 hour a day = 3 days. I would recommend that you remove "BPE - NK CA" and then reassign them to the task. Saving Changes...
