Hammock task issue

[SaraJH]

Hi,

What a fantastic site! Hopefully you will be able to help me with a problem I have in MS Project.

I have a hammock task in my plan linked to the Project Start milestone and Project Complete milestone. The Hammock task is set to Fixed Work.

When I assign 90 days work to this task the start date moves away from project start (project duration is 225 days). I thought that the purpose of hammock tasks was that they didn't behave like this or am I doing something woring?

Many Thanks


Sara.

[JulieS]

Add the task to the schedule, and set it as fixed work. Assign the resource and specify the number of work hours. Then do the paste link to the Project start and Project Finish. However - are you sure it's fixed work? If the duration of the project increases, shouldn't the work increase as well?

[SaraJH]

Thanks Julie,

I was doing things the wrong way around!

The plan is for a project estimated to start much later this year so at present I'm anticipating a start date change (which will then drive a change to the end date) but with the duration remaining the same.

[JulieS]

You're welcome. Make sure you are changing the Project Start date through Project Information.