Turn off automatic reduction of "Remaining Work"

[Thomas]

I need to turn off automatic reduction of "Remaining Work": I don't want "Remaining Work" to be automatically reduced following an increase (time registry) of "Actual Work". I need each and every one to estimate their remainning work regardless of the amount of time used so far - and most important: No automatic reduction (keeps project progression conservative and project members aware of their remaining work). Is there any way to turn off this automatic reduction. Are there other suitable options to resolve this issue?

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi Thomas,

How do people report time done? how do you enter it in Project?

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Project Management Consultancy
Prom+ade BVBA
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I need to turn off automatic reduction of "Remaining Work": I don't want

"Remaining Work" to be automatically reduced following an increase (time
registry) of "Actual Work". I need each and every one to estimate their
remainning work regardless of the amount of time used so far - and most
important: No automatic reduction (keeps project progression conservative
and project members aware of their remaining work). Is there any way to turn
off this automatic reduction. Are there other suitable options to resolve
this issue?

 

[Rod Gill]

Hi,

Work always=Actual work + Remaining Work. You need to make sure that your
users update remaining work in the time sheet each week.

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I need to turn off automatic reduction of "Remaining Work": I don't want

"Remaining Work" to be automatically reduced following an increase (time
registry) of "Actual Work". I need each and every one to estimate their
remainning work regardless of the amount of time used so far - and most
important: No automatic reduction (keeps project progression conservative
and project members aware of their remaining work). Is there any way to turn
off this automatic reduction. Are there other suitable options to resolve
this issue?

 

[Dale Howard]

Thomas --

When a team member enters Actual Work on a task, the Remaining Work value is
always recalculated, and cannot be disabled. If your people need to adjust
the Remaining Work value, they can do so after entering their Actual Work
value. A "best practice" which our company recommends for tracking progress
in Project Web Access 2002 and 2003 is to ask each team member to enter the
following in their timesheets:

1. Enter the Actual Work performed each day on a daily basis
2. At the end of the week, adjust the Remaining Work value, if necessary
3. If the Remaining Work value is adjusted, add a Note to document the
reason for the adjustment

Hope this helps.

I need to turn off automatic reduction of "Remaining Work": I don't want

"Remaining Work" to be automatically reduced following an increase (time
registry) of "Actual Work". I need each and every one to estimate their
remainning work regardless of the amount of time used so far - and most
important: No automatic reduction (keeps project progression conservative
and project members aware of their remaining work). Is there any way to turn
off this automatic reduction. Are there other suitable options to resolve
this issue?

 

[Thomas]

They will use the Project Web Access - entering hours on a daily basis and submitting the report at the end of every week. Project manager will approve and submit the time reports on a weekly basis. I have come to the conclusion that i might have to use custom fields (after reading the response from Dale Howard). Do you have any other suggestions?? I will appreciate your comments!

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi Thomas,

The problem is I do not know PWA
I programmed timesheet-to-project applications for several customers and can
talk about that, but unfortunately not about PWA.

HTH

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Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
Project Management Consultancy
Prom+ade BVBA
32-495-300 620

They will use the Project Web Access - entering hours on a daily basis and

submitting the report at the end of every week. Project manager will approve
and submit the time reports on a weekly basis. I have come to the conclusion
that i might have to use custom fields (after reading the response from Dale
Howard). Do you have any other suggestions?? I will appreciate your
comments!