Project Planning and Scheduling

This section describes formats used by the Clarizen to display or enter time units.

Durations, Actual Effort, Remaining Effort, Lag or other properties  that describe 'time units' are displayed in the application using the shortest possible suffixes:

For a task the Work is the total labor that is required to complete the task. For the resource Work is the total amount of work to which a resource is assigned.

Work of the task is a summation of the work assigned to all task’s resources.

Work is measured in the same units as duration.

Work can be equal or differ from the task Duration.

Progress Impact is a link between two work items where the completeness of one work item impacts the completeness of the other.
When you create a sub-item under a specific work item, Progress Impact link is automatically created. The progress of the sub-item will automatically impact the "parent" item's progress.
You can manually create Progress Impact links between two items, that do not have a hierarchical relationship, from the Progress Impact panel.
In this panel you can also define the weight of the sub-item within the overall completeness progress of the impacted work item.

A Work Policy defines relation rules between the three following task and resource related characteristics:

According to standard methodology, a dependency is a logical schedule link between two project work items and defines the sequence of work between them, e.g., launch can be performed only after product is developed.

There are four types of schedule dependencies:

To demonstrate the different types, lets say that Task 2 is dependent on Task 1. 

Duration of the work item represents the time required to complete the activity.

Duration can  be entered into the system in minutes, hours, days, weeks or months (see Time Unit Formats  for more information).