Capture Actual work when a task is complete

[DWall]

I want to be able to capture the actual amount of work a task took and
when I mark the task complete the actual amount of work entered doesn't
get recalculated to match the planned work.

Does anyone know how to do this?

Example:
A task has a duration of 5 days and 40 hours of work. The person
doing the tasks spends 5 hrs on the task. We enter 5 in the actual work
column and the % complete changes to 13%; which is correct. Then if
they enter 100 into the %complete column the actual work changes to 40
hrs, which isn't true, it was 5 hours. How can I capture the real
value?

 

[JulieS]

Hello DWall,

Add the remaining work field to your view. Enter 5 hours of actual
work, set the remaining work to zero. The task will be 100% complete
with a duration of .63 days.

The most accurate and detailed method of entering actuals is using
either the Task Usage or Resource Usage view. You can then enter when
the actual work took place. So, in the instance that the task was 5
hours of work but spread across 5 days, entering the hour per day in
either view will show the 5 days duration (zero duration variance) but
5 hours of actual work.

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

Julie
Project MVP

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