Looking for the best task type and order of steps to accomplish the following in Project: We typically approach work in the following way: 1 define tasks, 2 assign effort to the task, 3 put in dependencies, 4 try to hold tasks to complete by certain dates, 5 add-then-adjust resources with the expectation that the effort does not change, and the task dates don't change while we experiment with resource loading ITERATIVELY - the challenge is to keep project from changing effort or changing start/end dates while a task is incrementally resource adjusted until the resource loading makes sense. Not sure if project will tolerate that, but unfortunatley, we get work that needs to satisfy previous work estimates NOT derived from project, and end dates NOT derived from project, so we are forced to backfill project without changing effort and without adjusting dates as we figure out how to resource.
I assume we want tasks that are fixed work and effort driven - is there a way to create tasks, dependencies and start-end dates prior to resourcing and then hold those efforts/dates fixed while we find resource loading that satisfies?
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