Output Backspike Date

[Neil Perry]

Is it possible to calculate / output the date or length that a progress line
is backspiking / slipping by?

I can visually see it, but is there somewhere the actual date or number of
weeks behind is availble?

I would like to be able to copy that information into excel somehow.

Thanks
Neil

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Neil,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

I'm a firm believer that project management during the progressing stage is
mightly concerned with the future not the past. Forget the progress lines
gimmick in favour of Tools/Tracking/ Update Project... and select to
rechedule uncompleted work to start after the status date. Then concentrate
on the critical path to recover a late ending. You can use the Tracking
Gantt view to see which tasks are now late.

You might like to have a look at my series on Microsoft Project in the
TechTrax ezine, particularly #26 et seq, at this site:
http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc or this:
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMFrame.asp?CMD=ArticleSearch&AUTH=23
(Perhaps you'd care to rate the articles before leaving the site,
Thanks.)

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP
See http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc for my free Project Tutorials

 

[dlmckirdy]

Hi Niel,

If your project is baselined, you can insert the column "Finish Varience".
It compares the baseline finish with the Finish dates. A negative number is
a projected early finish of the task, and a positive number is a projected
late finish of the task , and by how much.