Newbeeeeeee Question

[Raffi Bearmant]

Dear All,
Plz excuse my ignorance, but we were all one ignorant, right?

Anyway I have learned to setup my tasks etc. WHat I would like to do is the
following:

Accourding to the plan my project will be completed on Jan 24. Now of cource
this is true if everything goes as planned. However today my working time
was interupted and I only got half of my work in. How can I see how this
adjusts the final outcome of the project.

In other words I want to enter how much I worked today (and tomorow and so
on) and have project screem at me: "look if this is what you did your
project will be completed on XYZ"

Thank you
Susan

 

[Steve House [MVP]]

Today you were going to put in 8 hours but you only put in 4. Assuming the
task started today, that means the the duration worked on the task so far is
4 hours or 1/2 day. Enter that in the tracking table as "Actual Duration."
The remaining duration is the task duration - actual duration. If the task
was supposed to be a 5 day task, the remaining duration *should* have been 4
days at the end of the day today but in fact it's going to be 4.5 days since
you only put in 1/2 day instead of a full day as planned. You'll see a
progress bar in the task but it doesn't come up as far as it should. Now in
the menu, use Tools, Tracking, Reschedule Uncompleted Work and reschedule
that duration you SHOULD have done in the past but didn't do to start on the
first time you think you'll get back to it. If it's tomorrow you'll see a
small task split and the end time will move out by 4 hours, even though the
duration will stay the same.