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Old 05-14-2021, 02:12 AM
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Work = duration x assigned units


So this is: time x units


Then why does MS project show units of work as hours? Should it not be manhours or workerhours etc...?
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Old 05-15-2021, 12:56 PM
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It doesn't - it shows assigned units as %. It shows work as hours (or days depending on the option you have chosen).
Thus your formula should be work = time x % and thus the units of duration and work are hours.
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Old 05-15-2021, 09:27 PM
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But the formula for work is

work = duration x assigned units
this is a universal formula
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Old 05-16-2021, 01:14 AM
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But the formula for work is

work = duration x assigned units
this is a universal formula
I fear we may have a mismatch in terms. What do you mean by "assigned units"? In MS Project the assignment of resource at x% of their time is the assignment element. This is measured in % of the resource's time

What are you referring to when you say "assigned unit" which you see as measured in hours?
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Old 05-16-2021, 01:17 AM
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No I mean the universal formula for work.

Work = duration x assigned number of units to the task.

Assigned units can be as 5 men, 6 trucks,

so the work then will be man hours or truck hours etc.....
but why does MS project display it as hours only....
hour is duration. Work is not duration. it is how long certain amount of resource worked for it = duration x assigned units
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Old 05-16-2021, 11:38 PM
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No I mean the universal formula for work.

Work = duration x assigned number of units to the task.

Assigned units can be as 5 men, 6 trucks,

so the work then will be man hours or truck hours etc.....
but why does MS project display it as hours only....
hour is duration. Work is not duration. it is how long certain amount of resource worked for it = duration x assigned units
I am sorry I thought this was a question about MS Project and how it calculates work. I see it is more of a general philosophical point. So in your calculation when you apply 4 people to the task are you assigning them full time or part time? You can't answer this with "well if they were half time it would only be 2 people" as you need to communicate exactly who needs to be working on the task. Hence you need to be able to mark the resources A, B, C and D as 50% of their time. This is what MSP is doing with the allocation of resources (who are assumed to be full time unless marked with a % allocation)
I hope this helps but if this is more of a "MS did it wrong" type comment I suspect it won't.
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