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Planned Durations/Planned Hours Best Practice

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Hi All - Does your organization have a rule of thumb in regards to the optimal number of days (Duration) that a Task should span as compared to its Planned Hours? For instance: if a Task's Planned Hours = 4 Hours or less, then the Duration = 1 Day. If a Task's Planned Hours is between 5 and 8 hours, then 2 Days Duration. Just curious to see how other orgs handle this. 

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Hi @jachlt 

 

There is no such "best practice":

 

Planned hours = the work that needs to be done

Duration = time frame in which to do the work

 

Those values are specific to your case and process.

  • It's possible to do 6-7hrs work in a 8hr day 
  • It's sometimes the case that you do but 2hrs of work due to meetings, interruptions etc. 

 

Talk to the people actually doing the work instead of looking for "best practice"