%Completed Planned Calculation

[Icarus]

Hi, does MS Project calculates the %Completed Planned for each task?

This is the scenario:

There's a Task A that starts on day 1 and it have a estimated duration of 4
days. According with this numbers and If the resource assgined is working on
time, a 25% of the task will be completed, so after 4 days, the task will ve
100% completed.

On day 3, the resource assgined update his task with a 40% completed. But,
according the planned, he supose to have a 75% completed.

I've seen % completed column on MSProject file but I can't find a %Completed
Planned (75%) column.

Can I interpret %Completed Column as the % Completed Actual value?

Please help.


Best Regards.

Sergio

 

[Rod Gill]

% complete is a very poor approximation of progress. Much better is Actual
start date then Actual Duration and remaining duration. If you have two or
more resources on the task then Actual work and remaining work for each
assignment is better. Best progress comes from entering actual hours of work
in the Task or Resource Usage View on the days the work is done.

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Rod Gill
Microsoft MVP for Project

Author of the only book on Project VBA, see:
http://www.projectvbabook.com