Total Effort

This field displays the total effort attributable to this project's labor assignments through both the completed portions and remaining portions of all labor assignments. In other words, this is the sum of the project's labor assignments’ Total Effort values.

Total Effort (Backlog)

The Backlog Total Effort is the total effort at the Backlog Item level. It is the sum of the backlog item Actual Effort and the backlog item Remaining Effort.

Total Effort (Assignments)

The Assignments Total Effort is the total effort from tasks other than the Backlog Items. The Total Effort (Assignment) will take into account the labor effort of the tasks corresponding to the Backlog Items once they have been synchronized.

Let’s imagine that a Resource is assigned on a Backlog Item with an effort of 40 hours. For the counterpart task available in the Work workspace, Planner tab, the effort indicated for the same assignment is 30 hours. In that case, the Total Effort (Assignments) field will indicate 30h and the Total Effort (Backlog) field will indicate 40h.