Progress Lines

[Project Manager]

I'm getting a zig zag at the top of my progress line even though it is set to
show the current date. It is starting the progress line at the original
proejct date and then zig zagging the line to the current date. How do i fix
this?

 

[Rod Gill]

My best practices suggest to never ever use progress lines. Better to update
actual start and finish dates and rely on baseline data to show where you
should have been using the Tracking Gantt chart.

Progress lines cause problems, because you have incomplete work in the past
and completed work in the future. How do you determine what your project's
resource needs are for the next few weeks?

By updating as recommended above, all work for next week needs to be done
and all work for last week is complete (provided you have also moved all
incomplete work out to next week after updating your schedule).

Good luck!

--

Rod Gill
Microsoft MVP for Project - http://www.project-systems.co.nz

Author of the only book on Project VBA, see: http://www.projectvbabook.com

I'm getting a zig zag at the top of my progress line even though it is set
to
show the current date. It is starting the progress line at the original
proejct date and then zig zagging the line to the current date. How do i
fix
this?

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[Project Manager]

I don't use the progress lines to indicate what work is done and what work
needs to be completed. I use it as an indication of generally where we are
on a schedule. I have a lot of customer's who don't know how to read a
project schedule, but because of the work and coordination (as managers of a
design process) we need to have one.

so.... this progress line helps my customer to quickly identify on our
project schedule were we are.

still searching for an answer.

 

[Rod Gill]

If the project is updated properly, you are always on today's date: late
work delayed until it restarts, early work pulled forward to when it
actually started, hence progress line redundant.

--

Rod Gill
Microsoft MVP for Project - http://www.project-systems.co.nz

Author of the only book on Project VBA, see: http://www.projectvbabook.com

I don't use the progress lines to indicate what work is done and what work
needs to be completed. I use it as an indication of generally where we
are
on a schedule. I have a lot of customer's who don't know how to read a
project schedule, but because of the work and coordination (as managers of
a
design process) we need to have one.

so.... this progress line helps my customer to quickly identify on our
project schedule were we are.

still searching for an answer.



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[bernward]

Your are right, if you have choose progessline in relation to actual
plan.
When you change the option "display progress lines" from "actual plan"
to "Baseline plan" you get the correct progressline. But it is
littlebit confusing to see the progress line in a ganttchart with
baselineinformation.