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countincognito / Zametek.ProjectPlan

A basic desktop alternative to Microsoft Project to help automate project design.
BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
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Allow half day activity duration or less #22

Closed marianagun closed 4 years ago

marianagun commented 4 years ago

It is not possible to add a half day activity duration or less. I have some tasks that are 4 hrs, 2 hrs or 1 hr, and it is not possible to include this detail. I have a project where I have for example 3 tasks that sum 7 hs (it is 1 day), but I get a planning of 3 days instead. Thanks for your help! Regards, Marian

jeffdoolittle commented 4 years ago

At the level of Project Design, activities should always be measured in 5 day increments at the minimum. Attempts to estimate at the precision of hours will remove all benefits from the law of large numbers when planning and estimating.

countincognito commented 4 years ago

As @jeffdoolittle mentioned, this is by design. Durations that are less than a day are really too granular to be useful in a tool like this.