ACTUAL PROGRESS VS. PLANNED PROGRESS

[David Ch]

I have read several post regarding how to track a project againts the
original plan. I have found a way to show where the project progress should
be in a given date. On the TOOLS/TRACKING, you go to Update Project. Then a
window pop-up asking for some more detail. There is a field for date, set it
up and click go; the project will change its STATUS column to a % of progress
for the given date.

The issue is that if you save your file, you will lost the ACTUAL progress.

Now, how can I have this function to update a column and then look where we
should be on the project without lost the ACTUAL % progress.

I read the earned value advice but I still don't like it. I would like even
to plot my actual progress againts my plan, but so far, the ony way i found
to do this, is by manually getting data from microsoft project and then,
typing it on excel and plotting from there.

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

I am under the impression that you did not save a baseline which holds the
pooriginally planned dates.
Wen, you save the project after an Update Project, your changes are saved,
definitely.
HTH

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi David,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

You might like to have a look at my series on Microsoft Project in the
TechTrax ezine, particularly #25 &26 on Progressing, at this site:
http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc or this:
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMFrame.asp?CMD=ArticleSearch&AUTH=23
(Perhaps you'd care to rate the articles before leaving the site,
Thanks.)

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Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP