Resources - How to - Recalibrate shared resourses

Hello,

When I assign 2 engineers to a task of 4 days, that task gets reduced to 2
days, this assumes that 2 people are able to do a job twice as fast, but I
know that those 2 engineers working together produce as 1.7 men instead of 2.

How do you guys take this into account? Is Project able to recalibrate those
resources in the way I want?

Let me explain the way I do it and you guys can correct me...

I have my resources added through the Resource Sheet, in there, a resource
has a Max Units of 100%. However, on the Task Information, under the
Resources tab, I add the 2 resources I want to work on that task and I change
their Units to 85%, this will do that task at 1.7 rate, so the 4 days task
will be done on 2.35 days instead of 2 days.

Is this the correct way of accounting for this? Should I have something else
into account?

Thank in advance for any response, comment or link.

Regards,
Miguel Gonzalez.

davegb
Wed Mar 12 17:09:04 CDT 2008

On Mar 12, 3:45=A0pm, Maglez <Mag...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When I assign 2 engineers to a task of 4 days, that task gets reduced to 2=

> days, this assumes that 2 people are able to do a job twice as fast, but I=

> know that those 2 engineers working together produce as 1.7 men instead of=
2.
>
> How do you guys take this into account? Is Project able to recalibrate tho=
se
> resources in the way I want?
>
> Let me explain the way I do it and you guys can correct me...
>
> I have my resources added through the Resource Sheet, in there, a resource=

> has a =A0Max Units of 100%. However, on the Task Information, under the
> Resources tab, I add the 2 resources I want to work on that task and I cha=
nge
> their Units to 85%, this will do that task at 1.7 rate, so the 4 days task=

> will be done on 2.35 days instead of 2 days.
>
> Is this the correct way of accounting for this? Should I have something el=
se
> into account?
>
> Thank in advance for any response, comment or link.
>
> Regards,
> Miguel Gonzalez.

If you're going to track to that level of detail, that's the way to do
it.