The duration changes on several tasks when I move tasks that are linked to it.

[Shannonevans]

When I began tracking my project, some tasks where completed out o
order. I moved them to the correct time and reattached the links t
future work so it would reflect what was truely happening. I notice
when I put them 100% complete the duration changed. For some reaso
several of the tasked linked to that task changed the duration. I
seemed like they were ignoring the resource calendar when I put th
correct duration back in. Like working 5 ten hour day schedule, 3
hours should span over a three day period. It would show it as a littl
over 1 day, like it was on a 24 hr schedule. I also noticed that when
progressed the schedule the % complete changed on several tasks. Item
I put 50% complete went to 16%. What is up with that

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Shannonevans ,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

You are likely to get unexpected changes when you progress by %Complete.
The best way is to leave the original order and links alone, after all, the
thinking behind the logic links was logical, wasn't it? Then enter Actual
Start date, Actual Work and Remaining Work, whence Project will do the
percentage calculations for you.

You might like to see FAQ Item: 5. Default Working Hours

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm

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

Mike Glen
Project MVP
See http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc for my free Project Tutorials

 

[Mike Glen MVP]

Hi Shannonevans ,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

You are likely to get unexpected changes when you progress by %Complete.
The best way is to leave the original order and links alone, after all, the
thinking behind the logic links was logical, wasn't it? Then enter Actual
Start date, Actual Work and Remaining Work, whence Project will do the
percentage calculations for you.

You might like to see FAQ Item: 5. Default Working Hours

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm

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

Mike Glen
Project MVP
See http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc for my free Project Tutorials

 

[Shannonevans]

Thanks for the reply. Maybe I need to re-think the way I'm doing the
tracking. Let me explain. I am tracking an outage for a power plant.
My project has around 850 lines. I have put these in the order that I
think they could go, but most of them are not really related to each
other and it really don't matter if they are not done exactly the was I
have them planned. So I end up with a great deal of them done out of
order. But, I print out a daily report with each crew's work for the
next several days. The leads for each crew comes in daily and gives me
a percent complete on each job. I progress the schedule at the end of
the day and print their report for the next morning. In order for the
reports to have the correct jobs and amount of work I thought I needed
to move all the work that was completed out of schedule. Is there a
better way?

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Shannonevans ,

The order in which tasks are done is immaterial if there are no logic links.
If there are real logic links, then the later ones cannot logically be done
before their predecessors. Don't worry if they're out of order, just update
each one as work is done. Use Tools/Tracking.../Update project and select
to rescedule uncompleted tasks to begin on the Status date.

Meanwhile, you might like to have a look at my series on Microsoft Project
in the TechTrax ezine, particularly #27 pn progress data input, at this
site: http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc or this:
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMFrame.asp?CMD=ArticleSearch&AUTH=23
(Perhaps you'd care to rate the article before leaving the site,
Thanks.)

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP

wrote:

 

[vanita]

Hi

Also check up if there is a mismatch between Resource calendar and Working
hours per day. You may check this in Tools > option > calendar.

I hope it helps.
Vanita