Time to Market for projects that are put on hold

[JJHayesIII]

We have the situation where we're trying to track the TTM for projects, but
the results aren't completely accurate, as sometimes projects are put on
hold, and continued at a later date. This doesn't give us a very good
indicator on how long the actual project took to complete. Does anyone have
a way to deal with situations like this?

Thanks!
- James

 

[Dominic Moss]

James,

You could create a new "Base Calendar" for your on-hold projects where the
period of time between them being put on-hold and then reinstated could be
blocked out as non-working time. If you were to then display a Project
Summary Task (Tools>Options>View - bottom right hand corner tick box) whose
duration in working days would show the overall duration of your project not
counting the extended non-working time period.

I hope this helps - let me know.

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[JulieS]

Hi James,

If you have already started working on the project and recorded tracking
data (actual work, actual duration, actual start etc.) you could use the
"Reschedule Uncompleted Work" command in Project to split the in-progress
tasks, leaving the completed work data as completed, and move any incomplete
work to the new start date. Make sure you have supplied all tracking data
for tasks in progress and then choose Tools>Tracking> Update Project, and
enter the new date in the dialog box next to the option "Reschedule
uncompleted work to start after".

Hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie