Adjusting Remaining work in PWA

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Buzz

Is there a way to make sure Remaining Work does not go up,
when time is taken out of the timesheet. For example, I
have a resource with no Remaining Work, left on a
particular task. They mistakenly enter 8 hours on 12/3
and 8 hours on 12/4. When they replace the 8s with zeros,
to correct the mistake, the Remaining Work changes to 16.
Is there a way to make sure this does not happen with
future mistakes?

Thanks,
Buzz
 
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Dale Howard

Buzz --

I believe this situation is a training issue for your people. They need to
be taught to adjust the Remaining Work value in the task list in PWA to
indicate that no work is left on a task. That should be a part of your
company's reporting methodologies for task work. In fact, a "best practice"
I recommend for collecting actuals from team members is to ask them to
submit the following each week:

1. Actual work entered in the time periods during which the work was
actually performed
2. Adjust the Remaining Work estimate, if necessary, to show an early
finish (adjusted to 0 hours) or work that was underestimated (adjusted to a
larger number than indicated)
3. A task Note to document why the Remaining Work estimate was adjusted

Hope this helps.
 
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