With Autolink enabled, links are automatically created when you move or insert tasks. This feature is disabled by default in Project 2010 – and it only works with contiguous finish to start relationships – but it can make the process of moving / inserting tasks easier when you’re updating your project plan. To turn Autolink [...]
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Save Time using Autolink in Project 2010
Posted in Microsoft Project 2010, tagged autolink, Microsoft Project 2010, tasks on July 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Per-Use Costs in Microsoft Project 2010
Posted in Microsoft Project 2010 on April 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Microsoft Project accrues per-use costs at the start of a task. Let’s use the following resources to dig a little deeper: General Labourer – $14 / hour Supervisor – $50,000 / year Electrical Contractor – $5,000 cost / use First, I’ll create the resource list. Notice that all resources are configured to accrue costs on [...]
Effort Driven Tasks in Microsoft Project
Posted in Microsoft Project 2010, tagged Microsoft Project 2010 on December 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Effort driven tasks have a finite, or limited, amount of work associated with them. Let’s look at an example. If painting several rooms in an office building takes one painter 4 days, Microsoft Project uses this duration estimate (32 hours) and multiplies it by the number of resources assigned to the task (1) to determine [...]
