Baseline % complete versus actual percentage complete

[rooster]

Hi, can anyone help answer the following question: one of the main purposes
of having a plan is to be able to track the actual project percentage
complete against the base line, however when you go into tracking and look at
the gant bars only the actual progress is shown as a percentage the baseline
is only shown as a bar against the current date line, if you look in reports
you can only get a date or work variance but no % value. The company I work
for expect me to be able to tell them for example " we are currently 50%
actually complete against a planned baseline of 55% meaning that we are 5%
behind schedule" Both these sets of figures should show on the tracking gant
for tasks,sub-projects and the overall project for any given date up to the
current date of the project or am I expecting too much?

regards
Roger

 

[rooster]

Hi Trevor, thanks for the reply sorry for the delay but I have been in
hospital so have only just seen your answer. The example you use with the
10000 bricks is an easy one for me to explain what I am looking for on a
tracking gant, if the base line was originally scheduled to lay 6000 bricks
by a set date and we only lay 3000 by this date then as you say we have
completed 30% of this task against the 60% we were forcasted to have done,
all I want is the tracking gant to show this baseline figure of 60%. In my
case the denominator is duration and is important as we run into fixed
penalties if we miss the finish date. The way I think you are looking at it
is that if a project has a duration of 100 days when you reach 50 days you
should be at 50% complete but that is not true depending on how your tasks
are contoured or the way you have to carry out the work and should be
reflected when you set the baseline. As I said Ive used your example on the
bricks, in reality I have over 1500 tasks of varying durations of which 150
could be running simultaneously so trying to work out how you are performing
against the overall time schedule is not so easy whilst looking at earned
value is.