actual time and percent complete

[Dave N.]

I'm a project planner who is in the process of preparing to go live with MS
Project Server 2003. I'm currently updating active projects already entered
in the system during the initial pilot implementation. One of the corporate
goals is for the hourly employees to enter all time (project and
administrative) through Project Web Access and we will pull that time on a
weekly basis for payroll reporting.

My issue is this: I want to be able to change a task to 100% complete even
if it took less that the amount of work estimated. I don't want the PM
server to adjust the actual work for the resource assigned to the task when I
change the %complete to 100. I'm assuming that if I change a task (that has
80 hours in the work field) to 100% complete, the resource (who completed the
task in 55 hours and entered their time via PWA) will end up showing 80 hours
in the actual work field and that this would give inaccurate payroll
information. Is that true?

Also, I'm using the SQL script files that you can use to extract timephased
data found on the MSDN web site to get my payroll reports, just in case you
were wondering how I'm going to be accessing data for payroll reporting.

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Dave N. --

If a task finishes early, you should simply set the Remaining Work to 0
hours that that particular task or assignment. Hope this helps.

 

[Gary L. Chefetz \(MVP\)]

Dave:

I suggest that you look at some of the add-on timesheet products for Project
Server that enhance Project Server's time reporting making it more suitable
for driving payroll. My personal judgment is that the Project Web Access's
timesheeting is not suitable for driving payroll without significant
modifications for auditing purposes. And, you should not be using
time-phased data for this purpose. Stick to the data captured in
MSP_WEB_WORK and make sure that you're using managed time periods if you
insist on taking this approach. See the MVP site in my signature for a list
of add-on products.

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