The actual time required to complete an activity.
The number of labor units necessary to complete the work. Effort is usually expressed in staff hours, staff days or staff weeks and should not be confused with duration. [D00591] WST The application of human energy to accomplish an objective. [D00590] PMK87 The number of labor units required to complete an activity or other project element. Usually expressed as staff hours, staff days, or staff weeks. See also duration. [D00592] PMK96
The direction of physical and mental energy toward the tasks of effective visual thinking. To be distinguished from "trying" connotes the inappropriate application of energy to tasks. In effort the goals the artist is trying to reach are not prematurely determined in direction and rigidly controlled by verbal processes in the mind, they grow of the very nature of the individual artist.
The amount of time required to perform an activity. Can be measured in person hours, person days, person weeks, person months or person years. For planning purposes, activities are usually assigned to staff in terms of person days.
A subjective measure of the resources needed to complete a task. For many people, this corresponds to the time it takes to finish the task, but you can also use effort to represent other resources such as energy.
The number of labor units required to complete an activity or other project element. Usually expressed as staffhours, staffdays, or staffweeks. Should not be confused with duration.
The measure of the amount of work required to complete a project or part of a project. Do not confuse this with Duration.
The estimated amount of effort required for a given task. e.g. Task 1.2.3 requires 35 effort hours.
The amount (not duration) of work required to complete a task. Duration may decrease by adding resources but the effort required will remain the same.