How do I reflect the true finish date for a task?

[Jaylene]

Let's say I have a 40 hour task for a single resource that is supposed to
start on February 8. The resource is allocated 8 hours per day. As expected,
Project schedules the task to be completed 5 days later on February 12.

Let's say it's end of day Wednesday, February 10. My resource has made only
8 hours of progress since Monday. My remaining work is 32 hours, yet my
finish date still reflects February 12. How do i get my finish date to
reflect that there are 32 hours that remain from Wednesday? Reality says that
my resource will not finish 32 hours of work until the following Tuesday,
February 16.

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

Enter 8 hrs of Actual Work.
Then Tools, Tracking, Update Project
Select the radio button "reschedule ..." and put Wednesday's date in the
appropriate box.
OK, and that's it.

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[Sai]

Let's say I have a 40 hour task for a single resource that is supposed to
start on February 8.  The resource is allocated 8 hours per day. As expected,
Project schedules the task to be completed 5 days later on February 12.  

Let's say it's end of day Wednesday, February 10. My resource has made only
8 hours of progress since Monday.  My remaining work is 32 hours, yet my
finish date still reflects February 12.  How do i get my finish date to
reflect that there are 32 hours that remain from Wednesday? Reality says that
my resource will not finish 32 hours of work until the following Tuesday,
February 16.

Besides Jan's answer, I suggest you the following setting to change
the behaviour of how Project reschedules the completed and incomplet
work of the task

1. After the Status date is set in Project Information dialog box
2. Choose Tools | Options, Calculation tab and under Schedule
adjustments for early and late tasks section
3. You can turn on / off the below check boxes
a Move end of completed parts after status date back to status date
b Move end of completed parts after status date back to status date
and And move start of remaining parts back to status date
c Move start of remaining parts before status date forward to status
date
d Move start of remaining parts before status date forward to status
date And move end of completed parts forward to status date

Please let us if clears your question.

- Sai, PMP, PMI-SP, MCT, MCTS
http://saipower.wordpress.com

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Jaylene,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

It seems to me that the simplest way is the correct way. Tools/Tracking/Update Tasks... Enter the Start Date, Actual Duration ( 1 day so far) and Remaining Duration (4 Days) and let Project do the calculations for you. Alternatively, View/Table../and select Tracking and fill in the details. I like to add the Remaining Work column so you can enter the 32 hours there.

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Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP
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Let's say I have a 40 hour task for a single resource that is supposed to
start on February 8. The resource is allocated 8 hours per day. As expected,
Project schedules the task to be completed 5 days later on February 12.

Let's say it's end of day Wednesday, February 10. My resource has made only
8 hours of progress since Monday. My remaining work is 32 hours, yet my
finish date still reflects February 12. How do i get my finish date to
reflect that there are 32 hours that remain from Wednesday? Reality says that
my resource will not finish 32 hours of work until the following Tuesday,
February 16.