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effort driven and resource driven

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Sat, 2008-11-08 03:55
faisal afsar
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hi all

just a simple question what is ment by effort driven and resource driven how do i go about selecting a particular task as efort driven or resourrce driven
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Mon, 2008-11-10 11:23
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Darren Kosa
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Alexandre,

Interesting answer, I never really considered that a task should be resource driven in such a way, but on reflection if you interpret it literally, i.e. unit availability, I suppose it could.

Using MS Project, I have always understood resource driven to mean that the duration of a task is determined by the assignments resource calendars.

As an example:

Tom only works Mon & Tue
Dick only works Wed & Thu
Harry only works Fri

This means if each resource is assigned to work 1 day on a task, the minimum duration would have to be 5d. (Unless you split it of course)

Regards,

Darren
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