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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 2019 Essential Training

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Use effort-driven and non-effort-driven scheduling

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- [Instructor] Effort driven scheduling means total work stays the same as you add or remove resources. It's the norm because you usually add resources to a task to get the work done in a shorter time. Sometimes though, you don't want total work to stay the same. Let's take a look at the task Identify requirements. It has a duration of 25 days. I'm gonna turn on the Task Form. So on the View tab in the Split View section, turn on the Details check box to see the task form in the Details pane. Notice the Effort Driven check box is turned on. The Relo PM is assigned to this task. With effort driven scheduling, if I add another resource, Project is going to split the work between the resources. So lets say I add the Relo Assistant to this task. When I click okay, now the 200 hours of work are still on the task, but each of the resources is working 100 hours of that time. In addition, the duration has decreased to 12 1/2 days. That's Effort Driven Scheduling. Now let's take a look at…

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