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From: bernward on 29 Mar 2010 07:10
Your are right, if you have choose progessline in relation to actual
plan.
When you change the option "display progress lines" from "actual plan"
to "Baseline plan" you get the correct progressline. But it is
littlebit confusing to see the progress line in a ganttchart with
baselineinformation.


On 29 Mrz., 05:42, "Trevor Rabey" <trevorATperfectproject.com.au>
wrote:
> What does the zig-zag progress line show the client, what information does
> it convey, and how does it help him to see the progress lines?
> If it zigs to the left, it indivates that you have a planned task in the
> past. Since you cannot plan to do something in the past, this only indicates
> that you have not updated the plan properly.
> If it zags to the right, this indicates that you have shown progress in the
> future. Since you cannot achieve progress in the future, this only indicates
> that you have not updated the plan properly.
>
> Although the progress lines may be useful to you to see where you have not
> updated the plan properly, I would not put anything with zig-zags in front
> of a client.
> Of course, your client probably won't know what they are looking at so it
> probably won't matter if you do.
> --
> Trevor Rabey
> 0407213955
> 61 8 92727485
> PERFECT PROJECT PLANNINGwww.perfectproject.com.au
>
> "Project Manager" <ProjectMana...(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> messagenews:9AD1E9BC-3C1E-4A71-8FFA-E9B4AEF6140F(a)microsoft.com...
>
>
>
> >I don't use the progress lines to indicate what work is done and what work
> > needs to be completed. I use it  as an indication of generally where we
> > are
> > on a schedule. I have a lot of customer's who don't know how to read a
> > project schedule, but because of the work and coordination (as managers of
> > a
> > design process) we need to have one.
>
> > so.... this progress line helps my customer to quickly identify on our
> > project schedule were we are.
>
> > still searching for an answer.
>
> > "Rod Gill" wrote:
>
> >> My best practices suggest to never ever use progress lines. Better to
> >> update
> >> actual start and finish dates and rely on baseline data to show where you
> >> should have been using the Tracking Gantt chart.
>
> >> Progress lines cause problems, because you have incomplete work in the
> >> past
> >> and completed work in the future. How do you determine what your
> >> project's
> >> resource needs are for the next few weeks?
>
> >> By updating as recommended above, all work for next week needs to be done
> >> and all work for last week is complete (provided you have also moved all
> >> incomplete work out to next week after updating your schedule).
>
> >> Good luck!
>
> >> --
>
> >> Rod Gill
> >> Microsoft MVP for Project -http://www.project-systems.co.nz
>
> >> Author of the only book on Project VBA, see:
> >>http://www.projectvbabook.com
>
> >> "Project Manager" <ProjectMana...(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> >> messagenews:291804E1-5D0D-4879-8D3C-8C29DE5586D6(a)microsoft.com...
> >> > I'm getting a zig zag at the top of my progress line even though it is
> >> > set
> >> > to
> >> > show the current date. It is starting the progress line at the original
> >> > proejct date and then zig zagging the line to the current date. How do
> >> > i
> >> > fix
> >> > this?
>
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