Can you change gandt display of resource [%] to resource [work in

I have a project with some part time staff who I have set to a 2.5 day
callendar.
When I assign a task to them their percentage allocations are double the
other resources. This makes the percentages very misleading. I like to have
my gandt chart with the resource name(s) on the bars. Is there a way of
changing the percentage to the number of hours per resource?

So for e.g a 1w task, instead of saying
John Smith [100%] Sally Jones [20%]
it would say
John Smith [40h] Sally Jones [8h]

Or can you think of another useful way the gandt can be printed out with
this kind of information easily seen.

Thanks

Jan
Thu Apr 21 08:33:06 CDT 2005

Hi Briony,

Can't think of an easy way to display work valiues instead of percentages
rightaway, but if you do not want to show the resource info to the right of
the bar:
Format, Bar Styles
Select Task (and if it is present later also Critical task)
On teh lower half select the Text Pad
Delete Resource Names from the Right line
(An alternative is to use Resource Initials- these are displayed without the
%)

HTH

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"Briony M" <Briony M@discussions.microsoft.com> schreef in bericht
news:216D4E6C-CA4A-426C-931F-6CFE37C336FA@microsoft.com...
> I have a project with some part time staff who I have set to a 2.5 day
> callendar.
> When I assign a task to them their percentage allocations are double the
> other resources. This makes the percentages very misleading. I like to
have
> my gandt chart with the resource name(s) on the bars. Is there a way of
> changing the percentage to the number of hours per resource?
>
> So for e.g a 1w task, instead of saying
> John Smith [100%] Sally Jones [20%]
> it would say
> John Smith [40h] Sally Jones [8h]
>
> Or can you think of another useful way the gandt can be printed out with
> this kind of information easily seen.
>
> Thanks

Steve
Tue May 10 05:43:49 CDT 2005

Be careful here becuase percentage assignment is not the same thing as the
number of hours out of the week that the person is assigned. If you assign
someone to a 20 hour duration task at 50% it does NOT mean they're only
working on it for 10 hours out of the 20. They still are physically
occupied doing the task for the full 20 hours but because they're not
working at it 100%, their attention is split with other things going on at
the same time, they are only generating the amount of work, the output, that
they would have done in 10 hours has they been working at full speed. An X
duration task takes X amount of time, never any less, regardless of the
resource percentage. The assignment percentage reflects how much sweat the
resources produce over that same time frame.


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"Briony M" <Briony M@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:216D4E6C-CA4A-426C-931F-6CFE37C336FA@microsoft.com...
>I have a project with some part time staff who I have set to a 2.5 day
> callendar.
> When I assign a task to them their percentage allocations are double the
> other resources. This makes the percentages very misleading. I like to
> have
> my gandt chart with the resource name(s) on the bars. Is there a way of
> changing the percentage to the number of hours per resource?
>
> So for e.g a 1w task, instead of saying
> John Smith [100%] Sally Jones [20%]
> it would say
> John Smith [40h] Sally Jones [8h]
>
> Or can you think of another useful way the gandt can be printed out with
> this kind of information easily seen.
>
> Thanks