MS Project 2000

[Wael El Shennawy]

I am a new user to MS Project 2000. In one of my project, I encountered the
following cases: 1) one task was done with zero cost. 2) Task started earlier
than scheduled.
in EV reports MSP 2000 ignored the my actual cost entry (zero)for the task
in case (1)and showed the baseline budget of this task and in case (2)
ignored the actual cost to-date I entred for the task started earlier.

 

[Rod Gill]

There are a number of EV values, a number of them work with Baseline values.
You are probably looking at one of them, hence the baseline value. Can't
tell from what you've said for (2), so what value are you looking at?

For accurate EV you need to:
Assign resources realistically (100% is not realistic unless they are
genuinely working 40h per week on the task)
Set a Baseline
Track accurately using hours per day. Actual start, Actual Duration and
remaining duration are an acceptable approximation, but not as accurate as
hours worked per day.

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Rod Gill
Project MVP
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