Actual Work Discrepancies

[Steve Adams, PMP]

Hi,

Question - are "actual work" values in Portfolio Analyzer representative of
exactly what a resource enters in their PwA timesheet for a particluar day?
Is there a delay in seeing this data in Portfolio Analyzer, i.e., does the
OLAP cube have to be created?

Background - My company uses managed work periods and manadates that all
project resources account for 40 or more hours per week by entering time in
PWA timesheets. In order to measure compliance someone whipped up a rather
complicated process which looks at time in timesheets that was not submitted
yet, time submitted and time not accepted.

My thought is that we could simply use the actual work value for each day
for each resource and ensure that it is greater than 40 hours per weekly
period.

 

[Gary L. Chefetz [MVP]]

Steve:

Actual work values will be, in most cases, a close to accurate
representation, but prone to have some variance from the "gospel" record due
to processing before and during cube building. In a managed time period
system, the actual work record is contained in MSP_WEB_WORK. For a simple
compliance view, you should be able to navigate to the resource center and
select view resource assignments. Your system administrators can create new
views for this area if you need modifications.