Please help clarify duration vs work in practical terms
Hi,
I'm sure I'm like the millionth person to ask this question but I need some expert explaining here on how to effectively use both duration and work in Project. I understand duration to be a function of time, like calendar days. If one resource is working 100% on something then 1 day of 'duration' would be 8 hours. What happens though when you have a window of say 30 days to schedule a bunch of stakeholder meetings. You have 30 calendar days to get the job done but the job itself is super easy, maybe in total taking 2-3 hours of a resource's time. If I make duration 30 days, it thinks that task will take 240 hours. I have a lot of tasks in my current plan where the logic goes, as long as it is finished by this date or around this date. What is my best and simplest option to show this? I have 300 rows so at first I though maybe lag time, but that would be a real pain to do for a lot of rows?
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