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From: Uso on 12 Mar 2010 06:02
Hi,
I'm looking for a MS Project Report or Indicator that summarizes the
progress in respect of time. It should be like an index.
Like "you were expected to have achieved 70% by now but only 50% was achieved"
I can see the total actual project progress but where do I see the expected
progress up to the day?
From: Andrew Lavinsky on 12 Mar 2010 08:34
You mean like Earned Value? Look that up in the help and see if that helps
you. You could also use Physical % Complete, which is manually entered,
but won't roll up unless you have cost in your schedule.

As a simple measure, if you're updating task duration at each status cycle,
the following equation may give you some value:
[% Complete] * [Baseline Duration].

That will sort of tell you how much time you'd budgeted to get to where you
are.

- Andrew Lavinsky
Blog: http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/epm

> Hi,
> I'm looking for a MS Project Report or Indicator that summarizes the
> progress in respect of time. It should be like an index.
> Like "you were expected to have achieved 70% by now but only 50% was
> achieved"
> I can see the total actual project progress but where do I see the
> expected
> progress up to the day?


From: Trevor Rabey on 12 Mar 2010 10:54
I think that your question and your intention is ambiguous and needs better
definition.

Trying to distill all the various states of progress of all of the tasks
into a single number which supposedly expresses the state of completion of
the whole project, is futile.
Even if you can do it, it would be uninformative and useless as far as
making decisions and taking action is concerned.

Some tasks start and/or finish earlier than planned and/or some others start
and/or finish later than planned.
Late starts and finishes may or may not be important, depending on which
tasks, how late they are and whether they are critical or not.
The plan, after all, is only an estimate.

MSP does not really know anything about what has been achieved.
It knows what the (actual and remaining) duration, work and cost are for
each task.
Since % is actual/total, it knows the % Duration (ie this is % Complete), %
Work and % Cost.

If you have the original version of your plan, before progress has been
recorded or any updates or re-estimates have been done, you can set a status
date, you can update as scheduled, Task by task, and you can compare the %
Complete with the % Complete in the current plan.

Even so, how does it help? Isn't what you need the new forecast of starts
and finishes, the project finish, work and cost etc?
If you use your project plan to flog your crew you won't have a crew for
very long.
--
Trevor Rabey
0407213955
61 8 92727485
PERFECT PROJECT PLANNING
www.perfectproject.com.au

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> Hi,
> I'm looking for a MS Project Report or Indicator that summarizes the
> progress in respect of time. It should be like an index.
> Like "you were expected to have achieved 70% by now but only 50% was
> achieved"
> I can see the total actual project progress but where do I see the
> expected
> progress up to the day?


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