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Effort Driven tasks

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Reply Thu 12 Feb 2009, 17:00Delegate Colum said...

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Effort Driven tasks

Is there a rule of thumb of how do to work out which tasks in your project should be effort driven and which ones aren't?

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Reply Fri 13 Feb 2009, 09:29Trainer Andrew said...

RE: Effort Driven tasks

Hi Collum

Thanks for your question. The test would be whether adding or removing resources to the original assignment should impact on the duration of the activity. If it should then the task is likely to be effort driven.

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

Kind regards,
Andrew

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