Assigning Manhours Rather Than Setting Days
July 8, 2013 - 05:50 am
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I am working on scheduling a project and am not exactly sure on the dates of each task yet. I have broken the project into many small tasks. I have an estimate on how long each task will take.
Since the tasks are controlled by the project deadline, I want to be able to assign a quantity of resource types (like: programmer) rather than assigning names. I want to do this without overscheduling a resource by naming it too many times.
Also, I want to not need to specify number of workers. Rather, I want to input the manhours needed, and then let the program determine manpower requirements based on start/finish times and required manhours.
Is projectlibre capable of this?
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Reply: Assigning Manhours Rather Than Setting Days
Hello,
In this situation I think an option that would help would be to use generic resources. To insert a generic resource, click the Resource - Resource view. In the Name column enter the name Programmer and press enter after this confirmation double click on the name and Programmer General tab enable the Generic. Take a test and see if it meets your needs.
I hope i helped.
Assigning Manhours rather than units
I have generic and specific resources working on fixed duration tasks and I want to assign them to the tasks based on the number of hours that they will be working on the task. How can I do this in ProjectLibre?
Generic Resource radio button in Resource detail dialog box
When you create a resource in the detail dialog box there is a radio button you can select it is a Generic resource. You can assign this to tasks and modify in the Task Usage view.