Project 2016 Intermediate

Lesson – Tracking Your Progress

Project 2016

Steps

Practice Data

1. Select the Act. Dur. or Rem. Dur. field for the task you want to update. The Act. Dur. or Rem. Dur. field is selected.

For the 15 Smooth Foundation task click the Act. Dur. field.

2. Enter the actual or remaining duration.

Type 1.5d.

The actual duration or remaining duration appears.

3. Press [Enter] .

Press [Enter]

The actual or remaining duration is entered and Microsoft Project updates the appropriate fields.

Notice that Microsoft Project enters a remaining duration of 2.5 day since the total task duration is 4 days.

Practice the Concept: Enter a remaining duration of 0 days for the 15 Smooth Foundation task. Notice that the task is marked 100% complete. The 16 Pour Foundation task only took 1/2 day to complete. Enter an actual duration of .5 days and a remaining duration of 0 days .

E NTERING T IMEPHASED W ORK V ALUES

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Discussion

Work and cost data reported per time interval is known as timephased information. Usage views, such as the Task Usage or Resource Usage view, display timephased assignment information in the right pane.

The most accurate method of tracking work completed on a task is to enter the amount of actual work done by the resource each day (or the selected interval on your timeline). For example, if the painter spent 5 hours painting doors on October 30th and 8 hours on October 31st, enter actual work values of 5 hours for 10/30 and 8 hours for 10/31 for the Painter resource on the Paint Doors task.

You can record timephased work values in the Task Usage view by adding the Act. Work detail to the view. In addition, applying the Work table allows you to view the total hours worked for a task. While entering timephased information is the most accurate way to report progress, it is also the most time-consuming.

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