Recording Actual Hours Worked

[Jack]

I've set up a project and I'm trying to track the actual hours worked by
resource. When i go to Task Usage Table Entry and enter actual Work - the
Work number changes also.

I would like to see actual hours vs planned. I've tried Fixed Duration,
Fixed Work and Fixed hours but can find the correct combination.

jack

 

[JulieS]

Hello Jack,

Before you start supplying actual work, you'll want to save a baseline
for your project. (Tools > Tracking, Save Baseline). Saving the
baseline will copy start ,finish, duration, work, and cost for each
task into Baseline Start, Baseline Finish, Baseline Duration, Baseline
Work, and Baseline Costs fields. Project will then compare actual
work to baseline work to calculate Work Variance.

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

Julie
Project MVP

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[JulieS]

Hello Jack,

I'm pretty sure I answered this question last night, but I don't see my
reply to you (visible in the web), so I'll try again.

Before you start to track actual hours worked, you need to save a baseline
for the project. Go to Tools > Tracking, Save Baseline. (Project 2007 is
"Set Baseline). When you save a baseline, Project will copy the data from
the start, finish, duration, work, and cost fields into Baseline Start,
Baseline Finish, Baseline Duration, Baseline Work, and Baseline Cost. As you
track work, you'll see actual work, work, and remaining work update but the
baseline work field will be unchanged.

You may add the Baseline Work field to the Task Usage or Resource Usage
view. Choose Format > Details, and select baseline work.

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

Julie

 

[Jack]

JulieS

Thanks for your information. I added additional columns to see the fields
you described and now I think I understand what Project is doing.

I really appreciate your response.

Jack

 

[JulieS]

Hi Jack,

Great, I'm glad to hear you're all set and thanks for the feedback.


Julie
Project MVP