What is Effort Driven Option in Microsoft Project

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 Posted by Do Duy Khuong
 Categories Microsoft project
 Date December 22, 2017

What is Effort Driven

You may wonder what does “Effort driven” option in Task Detail Form do?

Here I have 2 tasks.

Task A doesn’t have Effort driven check. When I assign 2 resources to it, the Work unit for each
resource doesn’t change (80h for each resource). No matter how many resource I assign, each
resource will get 80h.
Now, Task B have Effort driven check. When I assign resource to it, the Work unit for each resource
change (with 2 resource assign it will get 40h for each resource). And activity duration reduce to 5
days. The more resource you assign, the less unit each resource will get.

SUMMARY
So, when you have kind of activity which can be reduced duration by adding more resource, use
“Effort driven” option.

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Do Duy Khuong
Hi. My name is Do Duy Khuong. I’m a Project Planner / Construction Claims Consultant / Delay
Analyst in Civil, Transportation and Oil & Gas Industry. I’ve also worked as a Primavera Consultant
Specialist since 2006. I’ve got a Civil Engineering degree and a Bachelor of Information
Management System. Now I’m working in SGC company, providing Delay Analysis service. We have
offices in Beijing – China and Dubai – UAE.