Man hours assigned to a workpack are shared among the deliverables, based on the weighting of each deliverable. However, if you update the workpack by, for example, adding a deliverable, it may be necessary to recalculate the distribution of man hours among the deliverables.
Use the Redistribute Man-hours command, available from the shortcut menu of a workpack, to update the allocation of workpack man hours among the deliverables.
For example, WorkpackA is assigned 1000 man hours and has two deliverables registered to it: Deliverable1, which has a weighting of 40, and Deliverable2, which has a weighting of 60. Deliverable1 is allocated 400 man hours, and Deliverable2 is allocated 600 man hours. Another deliverable, Deliverable3 is registered to the workpack. Deliverable3 has a weighting of 100. The addition of Deliverable3 changes the allocated weighting of the workpack. Deliverable1 and Deliverable2 should now get a smaller share of the budgeted man hours; Deliverable1 gets 200 man hours, Deliverable2 gets 200 man hours, and Deliverable3 gets 500 man hours. This does not happen automatically for all workpacks. You must use the Redistribute Man-hours command to recalculate the latest deliverable man hours.
If one or both Progress options Workpack weighting redistribution or Deliverable weighting redistribution is set to True, it is unnecessary to manually redistribute the man hours for a workpack.
These options indicate that the redistribution of man hours happens automatically
when the weightings of the workpack or its deliverables are updated.