Variance Work - a bit confusing in the summary

[Hans Wurst]

HI there!

For controlling the effort I use the following view.
Here I can see all work-information in one view like work, planned work,
actual work, remaining work and variance work.

Taskname Work Planned Actual ETC variance
Concept 6,13 d 6 d 5,69 d 0 d 0,13 d
Reinhard 2,94 d 2,94 d 2,94 d 0 d 0 d
Andreas 0,44 d 0,44 d 0 d 0 d 0 d
Jens 2,75 d 2,63 d 2,75 d 0 d 0,13 d

For me it's a bit confusing. As you can see my actual work for the tasks is
5,69 compared to the planned work 6. My idea of variance work is, that I have
no variance for the task. But as you can see I have variance for one
ressource and therefore a variance for the task. Is that right or did I get
something wrong. I'm working in a project office an my projekt manager does
not like that. He says - hey I have no variance, why do I see one.

Do I need another column to show what I want to see?

Best regards

Michael

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi Hans,

You do have a variance.
Your total work as planned now is 5,69 actual (= already done) plus 0,44
remaining work: I can know that since total work (which reflects the current
plan) is 6,13.
So your current expectation is that total work on the assignment will exceed
planned work so you have a variance.
Hope this helps.

 

[Hans Wurst]

Yeah, found it!.

Thanks!

Hi Hans,

You do have a variance.
Your total work as planned now is 5,69 actual (= already done) plus 0,44
remaining work: I can know that since total work (which reflects the current
plan) is 6,13.
So your current expectation is that total work on the assignment will exceed
planned work so you have a variance.
Hope this helps.

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