@3:00 If you set the Unit of Time from "hour" to "day" (and checked the Show Unit Label), the Default Units/Time would show 4d/d... And that makes it 4men/day? I am confused.
It takes it from 8 units/day to 1 unit/day. If you leave the Unit of Time in hours and want to resource load the activity, you'll need to multiply the number of men per day by the number of hours per day for that calendar. In this example, I was using men/day instead of manhours/day. There's been times on projects where I wasn't paying attention to the settings, and I incorrectly assigned manhours to an activity when I should have entered men/day, and visa versa. Just something to be aware of before you start resource loading.
Duration is based on production. For instance, if you have 100 feet of lineal pipe, and you can lay 10 feet per day, the duration for laying pipe is 10 work days (100 feet / 10 feet per day). It should never be about "feeling". First, lean on the Contractor's experience for production to derive the duration. Other resources include "RS Means" to find average production rates for various trades.
Think of it as one person working on an activity per day. Let's say you are building a house and the ongoing activity is framing. You go out to the jobsite and you see one guy working on the activity that day. That's "one man per day". Or if you have 3 guys on site working on the framing, that's "three men per day".
@@PJMScheduling so if I translate it to hours, would it be 8 hours- assuming that the typical work day is 8 hours-if there was one person on the field? And 2 hours if there were 4 of them?
@@yusrayusra5086 Correct - Assuming it's an 8 hour work day, one man/day equals 8 hours of work. If you had 4 people working on the activity for the day, that would be 32 hours. It depends how your project settings are set up - If you have "Drive activity dates by default" set on your resources, then increasing the number of men working on the activity will reduce your duration. But if you don't have that setting checked, adding men to the activity will simply increase your "budgeted labor hours" and won't effect the duration.
@3:00 If you set the Unit of Time from "hour" to "day" (and checked the Show Unit Label), the Default Units/Time would show 4d/d... And that makes it 4men/day? I am confused.
It takes it from 8 units/day to 1 unit/day. If you leave the Unit of Time in hours and want to resource load the activity, you'll need to multiply the number of men per day by the number of hours per day for that calendar. In this example, I was using men/day instead of manhours/day.
There's been times on projects where I wasn't paying attention to the settings, and I incorrectly assigned manhours to an activity when I should have entered men/day, and visa versa.
Just something to be aware of before you start resource loading.
Could you please clarify how I determine duration? Is it assigned based according to my wishes?
Please explain it me
Thank you
Duration is based on production. For instance, if you have 100 feet of lineal pipe, and you can lay 10 feet per day, the duration for laying pipe is 10 work days (100 feet / 10 feet per day). It should never be about "feeling". First, lean on the Contractor's experience for production to derive the duration. Other resources include "RS Means" to find average production rates for various trades.
I'm having difficulties understanding the meaning of ''man per day'' concept. Can you explain it better for me please ?
Think of it as one person working on an activity per day. Let's say you are building a house and the ongoing activity is framing. You go out to the jobsite and you see one guy working on the activity that day. That's "one man per day". Or if you have 3 guys on site working on the framing, that's "three men per day".
@@PJMScheduling so if I translate it to hours, would it be 8 hours- assuming that the typical work day is 8 hours-if there was one person on the field? And 2 hours if there were 4 of them?
@@yusrayusra5086 Correct - Assuming it's an 8 hour work day, one man/day equals 8 hours of work. If you had 4 people working on the activity for the day, that would be 32 hours. It depends how your project settings are set up - If you have "Drive activity dates by default" set on your resources, then increasing the number of men working on the activity will reduce your duration. But if you don't have that setting checked, adding men to the activity will simply increase your "budgeted labor hours" and won't effect the duration.
@@PJMScheduling Got it! Thank you so much