progress %

[shlomimh]

Hello, I'm working with Project Server 2003, and I'm looking for a way to
report the subjective progress of activity. The purpose is to find the
activities that, for example, used 50% of their work, but the actual progress
was lower.
Is there any field that provides me that information?
Thank you,
Shlomi, Israel.

 

[Gérard Ducouret]

Hello Shlomi,

In the Actual Work column, you enter a value = 50% of planned work.
In the Remaining Work column, you enter the revised value
Hope this helps,

Gérard Ducouret

 

[Dave]

Sounds like a standard earned value question.

You've consumed half the baseline hours but not actually accomplished
half the planned work.

You could look at cost variance fields but the answer depends on how you
want to measure it.

You will need to have a baseline saved in order to achieve this.

 

[shlomimh]

Thank you for responding,
the only problem is that we don't manage our budget with MS Project,
so I the cost fields are empty...
Is there another solution?
Shlomi

 

[shlomimh]

I'm working in an IT departement, so it's a little hard to measure the
completed work- because it's not tangible like laying bricks...
The kind of tasks that I have is: characterization, development, QA ext.

 

[Dave]

It sounds like your plans model a process rather than components of a
system. Maybe you need to think about what your project actually is and
then think about what the completed solution might be:
- Design document
- Software development
- QA review
- Implement firewall changes
- Lay cabling
- Agree support plan
- Training

Then you can estimate hours against each of these activities and measure
progress. Having done that, you can save a baseline.

If you don't have resources on your plan, then you can still estimate
progress.

It's hard to give more information without understanding exactly how you
use the application or how your project is composed.

 

[Steve House [MVP]]

You can also measure progess in man-hours of labour. Set the resource costs
to $1 per hour and turn off the display of the currency symbol in the
Option/View panel if it causes confusion. Now you can use the Earned Value
methodology to track progress based on hours of work scheduled versus hours
of work achieved instead of dollars budgeted versus dollars spent.

As for not managing your budget with Project, don't you need to know how
much your projects really cost? Not that you have to, but if the project
manager's responsibility is to drive the project to completion on-time and
within-budget, it's sure helpful to know what timeframe "on-time" represents
and how much of the organization's assets "within-budget" involves.

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Shlomimh ,

Next time, try posting on the microsoft.public.project.server newsgroup
(forum). Please see FAQ Item: 24. Project Newsgroups. FAQs, companion
products and other useful Project information can be seen at this web
address: http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm

Mike Glen
Project MVP