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Old 11-12-2011, 07:25 PM
ususer ususer is offline Contour help Windows 7 64bit Contour help Office 2007
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Hi,
I have an issue. When I add a contour, MS Project increases my duration by 1.6 days, therefore the end date moves as well.
The reason it does that is if the resource, in the flat contour, works 4hr/day, the backloaded contour basically will start out low, and go no higher than 4hr/day towards the end. Therefore duration has to increase. I don't want that. What I want is to start each resource low, but than towards the end go above 4 hrs to make up for lost time before and keep the duration the same and the end date the same. Can this be done?

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Old 12-04-2011, 08:34 AM
JulieS JulieS is offline Contour help Windows 7 64bit Contour help Office 2010 32bit
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Hi ususer,

I'm afraid the contours don't work that way. If you assigned the resource at 50% and use a contour, Project will not increase the assignment units above the 50% -- therefore it has to increase the duration to spread the same amount of work over lower assignment units.

You can set the task up as fixed duration -- but in that case, the total amount of work will decrease with the max per day at 4 hours.

You can certainly contour the work manually in the task usage or resource usage view.

I hope this helps.

Julie
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