Re: [O] How to estimate effort by week?

[Bernt Hansen]

Christoph LANGE <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Christian,
>
> 2011-11-18 17:32 Christian Egli:
>> Christoph LANGE<address@hidden>  writes:
>>> is there any way of estimating effort by week?
>>
>> Have a look at the doc string of org-effort-durations.
>>
>> Documentation:
>> Conversion factor to minutes for an effort modifier.
>
> Thanks for your pointer, but (if I got you right) that wasn't what I
> meant to ask.
>
> So let me try to ask more precisely:  I was not interested in
> expressing that a task would take me an estimated time of N weeks, but
> in expressing that I would spend at most <some amount of time> per
> week on that task.

Hi Christoph,

Is this to help limit you to that time per week or for estimating?

For limiting you can set up something like this:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
* STARTED Some task
SCHEDULED: <2011-11-21 Mon +1w>
:LOGBOOK:
- State "DONE"       from "STARTED"    [2011-11-19 Sat 10:27]
CLOCK: [2011-11-19 Sat 10:25]--[2011-11-19 Sat 10:27] =>  0:02
CLOCK: [2011-11-19 Sat 09:28]--[2011-11-19 Sat 10:27] =>  0:59
:END:
:PROPERTIES:
:Effort: 1:00
:LAST_REPEAT: [2011-11-19 Sat 10:27]
:END:
Limit work to 60 minutes per week
Let it repeat for next week
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

where the task repeats at some interval (weekly since you want to work
up to 1 hour per week on this task).  When you clock in the task the
modeline shows your current clocked minutes on the task _since your last
repeat_.

Set your Effort property to the limit you want for the task for the
interval and set your repeat to the size of your interval (1 hour per
week in this case)

So when you reach the limit of 1 hour (in this case) you mark the task
DONE which stops the clock and rescheduled the task to the next repeat
date.

When you clock the task in again the modeline shows 0:00 and counts up
to the effort limit again.

Does that help?

Regards,
Bernt