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Resources and cost allocation

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Reply Thu 9 Oct 2008, 16:13Delegate Patricia said...

Patricia has attended:
Excel Advanced course
Project Intro Intermediate course
Project Advanced course

Resources and cost allocation

For a task with say a duration of 10 days, if I have a resource who is only contributing 50% of their time on 1 day to the task and other resources chipping in over the 10 days, without the task requiring 10 days of effort (its just that due to waiting for things reviews, availability etc we will take 10 days to deliver), how do I represent this on the gantt chart and calculate the cost? Thank you.

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Reply Fri 17 Oct 2008, 16:51Trainer Andrew said...

RE: Resources and cost allocation

Hi Patricia

Thanks for your question. You might find it easiest to model this scenario by working in the Task Usage view and editing the allocated work for each resource assigned to the task.

You can access the view by going to View > Task usage

I hope this helps - let us know if you have any other questions.

Kind regards,

Andrew

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