Effort and duration are different
Estimated effort describes the original size of a stage. Remaining effort describes productive work still needed. A two-hour task may finish tomorrow if its resource is unavailable today.
Enter minutes in the stage editor or the planning action. After progress, update remaining effort to an honest amount still required. Do not reduce it just to make the deadline look healthier. Mark completed stages Done through the existing stage workflow.
Resources change the interpretation
Independent work uses assigned productive capacity. Work together requires the selected people simultaneously and applies its effort to each participant. Waiting work has release constraints instead of consuming productive capacity.
A Monday business status does not automatically update this local effort. See collaboration and Monday's ownership boundary.
Convert effort without a spreadsheet
The calculator beside estimated or remaining effort converts Minutes, Hours, Days and Weeks. Enter an amount, choose a unit, check the conversion, then choose Use minutes. It fills that field only; it does not save the form or change the other effort field.
The default standard effort day is 7 hours (420 minutes); the standard effort week is 5 days (2,100 minutes). Six standard days therefore mean 42 hours, or 2,520 minutes. Administrators can change these conversions under Settings. Existing minute estimates remain unchanged after a setting change.
Effort days use the organisation's standard effort day. They do not change when work is assigned to someone with a different working pattern. Six standard days of work can take more than six calendar days for a part-time colleague. The schedule still uses actual working hours, breaks, leave and commitments.
Enter a non-negative amount that converts to whole minutes within the original field's limits. Empty, invalid, negative or oversized conversions cannot be applied. Cancel leaves the input unchanged.