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Use effort-driven and non-effort-driven scheduling

Use effort-driven and non-effort-driven scheduling

From the course: Microsoft Project 2021 and Project Online Desktop Essential Training

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Use effort-driven and non-effort-driven scheduling

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- [Instructor] Effort driven scheduling means the total work for a task stays the same as you add or remove resources. It's the norm because you usually add resources to a task to get work done in a shorter time. Sometimes though, the total work for a task should change as you change resource assignments. So let's start by looking at task three, Identify requirements. This is an effort driven task. If I select it in the table in the task form you'll see that Effort driven is turned on. Now, let's assign the office manager to this task. I'm going to click the down arrow in the resource name cell and choose Office manager. So before I click OK, let's take a look at what we have in this task already. One person is assigned, the duration is 20 days, and the work is 160 hours, so now I click OK and what happens is because the total work stays the same the work is still 160 hours, but it's divided equally between the project manager and the office manager. And because of that, the duration…

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