% Complete...and % Work Complete (best practice)

[Jesse]

I have an MS Project 2003 schedule. The tasks are setup Fixed Duration. I'm
using the Work field to estimate and capture level-of-effort time spent on
the task. I'm using the start/duration/finish to estimate and capture
calendar time for each task.

When the task is complete (% work complete) and all the Work is entered --
the task may not show completed (with the check mark) in the Indicator field
because it appears that is driven from the duration and % complete.

What is a best practice (process and/or steps) for when a task is 100% work
complete to also set it to 100% complete?

 

[Andrew]

Jesse,

When i have been using Microsoft Project to track task and also track hours.
throughout the duration of the task i will update actual hours used in turn
this will update the % complete and will give you an outcomeof 100% complete
100% work complete and have the correct hours burnt.

if you have any other Questions to this email me (e-mail address removed)

Regards

Andrew Hansen

 

[Steve House]

What do you mean by ... "I'm using the start/duration/finish to estimate and
capture calendar time for each task"? Are you entering actual start and
actual finish in the basic gantt chart data entry table's start and finish
fields or are you going to the Tracking table and updating the Actual Start
and Actual Finish fields? What about work? Are you updating the Work field
or the Actual Work field? - all of these fields are different and exactly
how and where you post updates is very important..