This post details a procedure for creating a Hammock Task in Microsoft Project. A Hammock Task is a Task parallel to another set of Tasks but one that is constrained to have their same total Duration, no matter how that changes. It will have an “elastic” Duration.
We have an engineer working for 8 days starting on Monday. He/she will be staying in a hotel during the weekend. If the engineer starts work on Thursday, we will have 2 weekends. Also, if the duration of his/her work might change, so the number of weekends cannot be known in advance. We need a solution that allows us to charge hotel nights for all calendar days no matter what the duration or the start date of the engineer’s task is. Solution: Hammock Task.
At the heart of planning a project using Microsoft Project is the daunting responsibility of assigning Resources to Tasks. Worse still, try adjusting those assignments (both during planning and monitoring) and see what happens.
A confusing facility in Microsoft Project is the way Duration, Units of Resources and Work Loads per Task are interact with one [...]
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