– Effort driven or Non Effort driven? The Task Effort is the sum of the Work (hours) of all Work Type resources assigned to a task.
If you add additional people to a non-effort driven, Fixed Duration task, the work will increase. – JulieS Dec 18 '13 at 16:37 I agree that if project duration increases the LOE work should increase: this is a feature of both fixed-duration and fixed-unit tasks.
Variable Vs. Fixed Costs
The Effort driven option determines how the effort is calculated as resources are added or removed from a Fixed Units or Fixed Duration task. There are two options in: Effort driven When a resource is added or removed from a task, the Task Effort assigned to a task remains constant. Therefore the Work of existing Resources is reduced when a new resource is assigned. Adding or removing resources from a task will leave the total effort assigned to a task constant, unless all resources are removed or a change is made to the work of existing resource assignments.
Non Effort driven When a resource is added to or removed from a task, the Resource Effort or Work of other resources remains constant. Adding or deleting resources increases or decreases the total task effort and will not change the effort of assigned recourses. In summary, as you assign resources: – If you want the total number of hours assigned to stay constant then make the Task Effort driven. – If you wish to assign each resource with its own hours or units per time period then make the task Non Effort driven.
Note: A Fixed Work task is automatically Effort driven. Supplies, and and across Australia.
Just What Is It? Effort-driven scheduling is often misunderstood. In this article, I hope to shed some light on this method of.
The idea is, that based upon the resources available for a given project, each task can be scheduled and estimated according to the number of work hours available. Imagine that the project you are working on is moving from one house to another. You have four family members – two adults and two teenagers – who are available to work, and two adult friends who have said that they can drop by to assist as well. This project takes a finite amount of time. Say that you have estimated that this project will take about eight weeks for one person to pack everything, move it, and then unpack it in the new location if the person works for four hours, five days a week on the moving project.
Now, with six people working at this task, at the same rate of effort, it will take less time for the moving project to be completed.The total number of hours for the project is 120. With six people working on the task, performing with an equal amount of effort, the project will only take about five days to complete (This, naturally, assumes that the teenagers are not whining during their packing and unpacking experience). Steps to Take The first step in effort-driven scheduling is determining whether a given task is, in fact, effort-driven. After all, there are tasks within projects that are not effort-driven. For example, while packing is effort-driven, driving the moving truck is not.