Actual Hours and percent complete

[% Complete vs Actual Work]

Ok....I have a task that is to start & finish on 10/27 - only 8 hours in
duration and I have 1 resource working on this task. He happens to finish
the task in 7.6hours...but when I put in the actual it changed the work hours
to 7.6 also. I would like to have the work hours to still have 8 and the
actual to say 7.6 so it will show variance of that .4 hours. Any help will
be greatly appreciated!!!!

 

[JulieS]

Hi % complete,

Assuming you baselined the project, the original planned 8 hours (duration
and work) is stored in the baseline duration and baseline work field. The
duration variance field or the work variance field will show the variance.

Hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie

 

[John]

"% Complete vs Actual Work"

Ok....I have a task that is to start & finish on 10/27 - only 8 hours in
duration and I have 1 resource working on this task. He happens to finish
the task in 7.6hours...but when I put in the actual it changed the work hours
to 7.6 also. I would like to have the work hours to still have 8 and the
actual to say 7.6 so it will show variance of that .4 hours. Any help will
be greatly appreciated!!!!

complete,
Just as an adjunct to Julie's response, consider this. When a plan is
created Duration, Work and other fields are entered (or calculated by
Project) as estimated values (regardless of whether the "?" is shown on
the Duration). When a task is completed, the actual values describe what
really happened. Therefore the original estimated values are no longer
valid and Project overwrites them to agree with the actual values.
That's why the baseline fields exist - to capture the original estimates
for later comparison.

John
Project MVP