Actual work column changes at 100% complete

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Susan

Our resources go into server 2002 to log time to a task: Lets say they log 30
hours on a task that was esimated to take 40 and they are done. When the
project manager goes back into the plan and marks the task 100% complete the
actual hours changes to 40. Which is incorrect. Why does it do that?
 
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Dale Howard [MVP]

Susan --

Your team members are not submitting their task progress correctly. When a
40-hour task completes in 30 hours, the team member needs to enter 30 hours
of Actual Work and reduce the Remaining Work to 0 hours on their timesheet
in PWA. This will show that the task finished early, and the PM will not
need to make any adjustment to the task. In fact, I would strongly
recommend that you teach this methodology to your team members. In
addition, I also personally recommend that team members add a task Note to
the task in PWA to document the early completion. Hope this helps.
 
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Susan

Thanks I will pass this on to our PMO manager.

Dale Howard said:
Susan --

Your team members are not submitting their task progress correctly. When a
40-hour task completes in 30 hours, the team member needs to enter 30 hours
of Actual Work and reduce the Remaining Work to 0 hours on their timesheet
in PWA. This will show that the task finished early, and the PM will not
need to make any adjustment to the task. In fact, I would strongly
recommend that you teach this methodology to your team members. In
addition, I also personally recommend that team members add a task Note to
the task in PWA to document the early completion. Hope this helps.
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