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| Description | Specifies the effort needed to complete the task. An effort of 4d can be done with 2 full-time resources in 2 days. The task will not finish before the resources have contributed the specified effort. So the duration of the task will depend on the availability of the resources. WARNING: In almost all real world projects effort is not the product of time and resources. This is only true if the task can be partitioned without adding any overhead. For more information about this read "The Mythical Man-Month" by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. Tasks may not have subtasks if this attribute is used. | ||
| Attributes | Name | Type | Description |
value | REAL | ||
unit | UNIT | ||
| Context | task, | ||
| Inheritable | No | Scenario Spec. | Yes |
| See also | duration, length | ||
project duration "Duration Example" "1.0" 2005-06-06 - 2005-06-26
resource tux "Tux"
task t "Enclosing" {
start 2005-06-06
task durationTask "Duration Task" {
# This task is 10 calendar days long.
duration 10d
}
task intervalTask "Interval Task" {
# This task is similar to the durationTask. Instead of a start
# date and a duration it has a fixed start and end date.
end 2005-06-17
}
task lengthTask "Length Task" {
# This task 10 working days long. So about 12 calendar days.
length 10d
}
task effortTask "Effort Task" {
effort 10d
allocate tux
}
}