Current Status Indicator

[Byron M]

I would like to display a traffic light type indicator when I look a the list
of Enterprise projects in Project Centre on PWA. The indicator would be to
show the current status of each project at the moment in time. Does any one
know if this can be done?

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Byron --

Refer to the following link to get some ideas of how this can be
accomplished:

http://www.projectserverexperts.com/Shared Documents/CreateStoplightIndicators.htm

Please note that the information contained in the above link demonstrates
how to create a set of stoplight indicators to show the date slippage
(Finish Variance) for the project and for tasks in the project. Use the
knowledge you glean from this information to create your own stoplight
indicators according to your organization's project management
methodologies. Hope this helps.

 

[Byron M]

Dale, this was useful but I am still struggling to display what I want. I
want to compare actual work done against a baseline figure of how much work
should have been done at any point in the project. For example, if a project
is 20 days (150hrs) in baseline duration and the work is spread evenly. At
the end of day 10 75hrs of work should be complete; however the only field I
can extract is actual hours worked. Is there anyway of getting the other
parameter.

Byron.

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Byron --

If your organization uses the Hours of work done per day or per week method
of tracking progress, then you could compare the % Work Complete against the
% Complete. If the % Complete is greater than the % Work Complete, then the
task work has fallen behind schedule. This would be an indirect way to
extract the data you wish.

If your organization is using the % Work Complete or Actual Work and
Remaining Work methods of tracking, the above approach will not work. Hope
this helps.

 

[Simon Dullingham]

I would hook up stop lights to the CPI/SPI fields (if you really want stop
lights)

Other just us the CPI/SPI values directly.

Check out the definitions of these in Project if you've not used them before

Simon