Track Actual Hours without changing Start-Finish Date

[Vicky]

Hi,

I know this may sound not very logical, but I want to track the actual hours
without changing the start-finish date. I did set up the baseline project for
24 hour work days, but it still changes the date if the actual hours are more
than 24 hours.

I know it is doesn't make sense, but I was asked to do this and would love
to show them that this cannot be done in MS Project.

 

[Chris Marriott]

Vicky

If you track actual hours e.g. hours per day per task this will change the
actual start & finish dates by default

If you track actual work & work remaining this will only change the actual
finish is entered only when the remaining work = 0 (e.g. if actual work
equals or is greater than scheduled work)

If your actual work does not equal the scheduled work - the actual finish
will reflect this.

You can however manually change the actual finish .... this will also be
reflected in the finish column (basline essential to check variances)

Fields used

Baseline work
Work (scheduled)
Actual Work
Remaining Work
Baseline finish
Finish (scheduled)
Actual Finish

Hope this helps
--
Regards


Chris Marriott - PMP MCSE MCDBA
UK - EPM Consultant & Trainer

 

[Steve House [Project MVP]]

Are you tracking *duration* hours or *work* hours? They are very different
measures. Duration is time and there absolutely positively cannot be more
than 24 duration hours in a day, at least on this planet. Work, OTOH, is
actually "man-hours" and when two people work together for 24 hours, they do
a total of 48 man-hours of work.

Do you really have 24 hour workdays? That means that when a task begins it
doesn't stop until it's completed AND the resources assigned to it work on
it for the entire period of time. If a task lasts 72 hours, that means that
the crew that works on it doesn't rest, eat a meal, take a break or a nap,
or get any time off whatsoever for the entire continuous 3 days. It does
NOT mean that you have people coming and going with some guys working days,
others nights, etc. The 24 hour calendar says that if Joe Blow is assigned
to that task, he joins the task when it starts and doesn't leave for any
reason until it's finished days later. Machines might do that but people
don't - they need at least to sleep and eat a little while out of each day.