what is meant by the term tracking?

[Fathema]

Hi there i just wanted to learn a bit more about the tracking part of
microsoft project... what is meant by the term tracking? and why is it
necessary to track a project? and how do yo track a simple project? finally
what kind of report printout could i print that could demonstrate tracking
had occured?

Many thanks for your help!!

Fathema

 

[Gérard Ducouret]

Hello Fathema,

Tracking a project consists in noting down periodically, for example every
week, what has been done and re-estimating the remaining.
Two ways to do that
- You can check the Actual duration and estimate (for each elementary task)
the Remaining Duration
- You can check the Actual Workand estimate (for each elementary task) the
Remaining Work
Try the following:
View / Tracking Gantt
Set a baseline for your project : Tools / Tracking / Set a baseline
then...
Tools / Tracking Update tasks
Enter some values (with some discrepencies...) and look at your Tracking
Gantt

Hope this helps,

Gérard Ducouret

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Fathema ,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

You might like to have a look at my series on Microsoft Project in the
TechTrax ezine, particularly #25 on beginning tracking, 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.)

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

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

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP

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