Hello vamail2,
Based on your description, the column you need to display is Actual Work.
Duration is the span of time required for the task from its scheduled start to its scheduled or actual completion. If you have an 8 hour task and assign a resource to Work on it 2 hours each day, the duration will be four days plus any intervening non-work days (weekends, holidays, scheduled vacation...).
Work is the total amount of effort you planned for your task. Using the preceding example, Work would equal 8 hours (4days X 2hours).
Actual Work is the amount of work the assigned resource reported back to and entered into the project by the project manager. For example if our assigned resource did 4 hours of work and you inserted this figure into the Actual Work field for this assignment, the Actual Work would be 4 hours.
Please note that how much work a resource has done is only part of the data. You also need to ask how much of the task is completed or how much work will be required to finish. In my opinion, the latter is preferable.
Does this answer your question?
Bob Segrest, PMP
Microsoft Project Blackbelt
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by: KCTSPosted on 2007-07-10 at 18:02:30ID: 19459043
You need to show WORK not DURATION