Re: [Planner Dev] MS Project "red flag"

[Mark Durrenberger <m durrenberger comcast net>]

At 12:22 PM 2/25/2004, you wrote:
> tis 2004-02-17 klockan 16.20 skrev Mark Durrenberger:
>
> > I'm having a tough time coming up with good reasons to link effort and
> > duration but  I can't rule it out for others. So it might be a feature 
> some
> > (former MSP users) would look for - is that justification enough to 
> include
> > it?
>
> I think the feature is mostly used in MS Project as a way to do
> "what-if" scenarios, where you add a few resources to see what the
> result is. The problem with the way it is presented in the UI is that
> you sort of buy the whole thing as a truth ("wow, if I add 10 resources,
> the project will be done a month in advance").

It may be a "what if" tool but my experience is that people try to use it 
as a resource planning tool and get really frustrated with it "I entered my 
work and all my durations changed" is what I hear the most....




> I'm sure there are many other ways to achieve the same thing in a better
> way.
>
> We should probably keep the feature in some form though, since there
> actually IS a relationship between the duration and the amount of
> resources that you throw at a task, even if it's not really linear like
> in our model. For resources other than human it might even be a very
> good estimation.

I'm curious, could we produce an interim release without the link between 
the two and see how many users request it ;-)




> I definitely agree that it would probably be better to not have the
> relationship enabled by default.
>
> > User selects a task flag "link effort and duration" once this flag is
> > toggled, then they are presented with three additional "check boxes"
> >
> > "Keep duration constant" (is that better than "fixed duration"?) (default)
> > "Keep effort constant"
> > "keep allocation % constant" (please don't use "units")
>
> I like this, I think it would be a very nice way to deal with it.
>
> Thanks for the input!
> Richard


Happy to help...
Mark


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