Ahead of Schedule task and % complete

[go83]

If I enter a % complete value on a task that indicates it's ahead of
schedule, how do I get MS Project to reflect an earlier finish time than
originally expected?

Here's a quick scenario:

Let's assume I'm on a 2-week project with one task and one resource.
Project starts on the first Monday and ends on the 2nd Friday. At the
end of the first week, I enter a status date of Saturday into Project
Information and a % complete of 80% on the task. Theoretically my
project is 3 days ahead of schedule. Is there any way I can get MS
Project to reflect that via leveling?

In the opposite case, where my task is behind schedule, I can use the
Reschedule Work button to push out the task based on the % complete
value I enter.

Thanks in advance for reading this thread.

 

[Jim Aksel]

It is actually both Trevor and MIke's solution. You track remaining work,
remaining duration, actual start, actual finish. Let %Complete land where it
may.

To be more rigorous, please see my blog and read my white papers on %Complete.
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[go83]

Your answers rocked.

I do apologize about posting a question that had been answered before;
this forum is so vast and my question was so simple that I knew it had
to have been answered before.

My issue with search is that the Google search that is linked from the
forum appears to search across all the techarena forums. Even now, if I
do a search for % complete not one of the 20 results is even from this
forum.

I'm used to much more specific search functionality when I browse
forums like this. Is there a search link for this forum specifically?

Thanks.

 

[Rob Schneider]

This is a Usenet Newsgroup. It's not really a "forum" were it exists in
one place with one front-end user interface. Thankfully, There are many
ways to access and use it.

I find the best way to search this (or any other particular newsgroup)
is to use Google's facilties. Microsoft probably has same on Bing, but
I don't yet know what that is.

See http://groups.google.com, and in particular for this newsgroup, go
to http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.project/topics.


--rms

www.rmschneider.com

 

[JulieS]

Hi go83,

I use google groups directly searching the project newsgroup. The
techarena forum is "slurping" posts from the microsoft.public.project
newsgroup.

See:

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.project/topics

I hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie
Project MVP

Visit http://project.mvps.org/ for the FAQs and additional
information about Microsoft Project

 

[Andrew Lavinsky]

I'll one up you a bit ....here's how to search directly from IE:

http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/ep...ring-ie-to-search-the-project-newsgroups.aspx

- Andrew Lavinsky
Blog: http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/epm

 

[JulieS]

Very nice Andrew. Thanks for sharing
I'll give it a try in Firefox.
Julie

 

[go83]

To the point of using actual work for updating the schedule vs.
complete (which apparently should always be calculated), what format fo
status reports do people tend to use? I find that developers an
software testers love to speak of their progress in terms of percentag
complete. Do you guys force them to provide more detaile
actual/remaining work information, or do you translate the % complet
values back to work completed