Just to be clear, the "dynamically calculated completion percentage"
referenced below is the progress bar that you see whenever you have a
partially completed project. You can also see that bar next to the label
"complete" in the project section of the task properties pane; also, to
be super-clear, a numerical completion percentage is shown to the right
of the bar in the project section.
This bar is showing what percent complete the project is. So, if a
project consists of ten items and three remain uncompleted, you will see
a completion percentage of 70. But this assumes that all tasks are
weighted the same. If one of your completed tasks requires much more
effort that the others, and that task is complete, you would like to see
your completion percentage higher than 70.
Let's walk through how this works. Create a project named "project" and
then create a subtask named "subtask". Mark the subtask complete and
look at the completion bar for Project. It shows 50% complete. That is
because there are two items, Project and Subtask, and one of them,
Subtask is complete. So one complete out of two total is 50%.
Now, look in the task properties for Project at the Effort. It should
show the default, which is 50. Now look at Effort for Suntask. It should
also be 50. Change the effort for subtask to 75 and you should see the
completion percentage change to 60. That's because one task has effort
of 50 and the other has effort of 75 for a total of 125, so your
completion is 75 out of 125 or 60%.
To use this as accurately as possible, set the effort for your largest
task to 100 and set each other task (including the Project) to a number
representing the task's effort as a fraction of the biggest task's
effort. For example, if your biggest task will take 8 hours and your
smallest task will take 2 hours, set the largest task's effort to 100
and your smallest task's effort to 25 because 2 hours is 25% of 8 hours.
If you do not want the project entry to count as any effort, go ahead
and set it to zero.
-Dwight
On 1/12/2018 11:52 AM, Christoph Zwerschke wrote:
Am 12.01.2018 um 17:35 schrieb robisme (Olivier R):
> Actually, there is a "energy" field, but it's named "effort". Rather
usefull indeed.
You can certainly use it to describe the energy level.
But actually it's intended use in MLO is for something different -
according to the docs it "affects the dynamically calculated completion
percentage for a project" and "is different from time required for a
task parameter. For example if you just read a book, it would require
less effort than if you write MLO help documentation :-). It might take
you the same amount of the time to accomplish these tasks but the Effort
would be different."
In that regard it should have better been named "effect", "outcome" or
"impact", because the effort is not always proportional to the outcome
(this is the famous Pareto principle).
-- Christoph
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