Planned work and Actual Work on task updates and timesheet

[Gil]

Hi everyone,
I (think I) understand the logic behind actual work values replace
work values, and I understand that in order to compare between
original plan and reality, I need to compare the baseline values with
actuals.

That said, What is the effective meaning of "planned" line in a
timesheet? The resource manager see two identical lines, and cannot
tell what was suppose to happen, e.g. how many hours the resource was
scheduled to work, since now "planned" line contains same values as
"actual" line. Should the resource manager look for this information
in another view instead?

Also, when the project manager check the task updates that were
submitted to him by team members, he see the same values on "Work" and
"Actual Work". Again, what is the point of this fields in the process
of accepting task updates? What information can be obtained? Is there
anyway to add "Baseline Work" for the "task updates" view?

Thanks for any help and thoughts
Gil

 

[Darrell]

Gil,

We use the Resource Center to view planned versus actuals. The Resource
Assignments view using the "List" will show the work and actual work fields
correctly.

I have also noticed the update tasks page shows the same information for
actuals entered versus the planned work and think it is a bug that needs to
be fixed. The work field should show what was planned not what was actually
entered by the resource.

Darrell

 

[Gil]

Gil,

We use the Resource Center to view planned versus actuals. The Resource
Assignments view using the "List" will show the work and actual work fields
correctly.

I have also noticed the update tasks page shows the same information for
actuals entered versus the planned work and think it is a bug that needs to
be fixed. The work field should show what was planned not what was actually
entered by the resource.

Darrell








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Hi Darrell,
Thanks for your advice. On the Resource Assignments view I can not see
the timephased work and actuals (how much actual work was done in
every day of last week, for example, and how much work was planned for
each and every day).

So is there any way I can capture this information when I check the
updates submitted by team members? Even if I set a baseline, I can not
see BL info on the task updates view.

Any additional help will be appreciated!
Gil

 

[גיל]

Gary,
Thanks for your input.
You said: "you are correct in thinking that you must compare to baseline
work, and therefore need to add this field to your view".
Is there a way to add this field to either "Task updates" or "Timesheet"
view (maybe instead of "Planned" field) in PWA? Or the only option is to add
this field to Project Professional views?

BTW, I used to read and post to this group through Google groups, and didn't
even realise that the two groups are synchronized. For some strange reason
your reply didn't show up in Google thread. I saw it by chance because
someone made a reference to your reply, and I clicked on it...

Thanks,
Gil

 

[Gary L. Chefetz]

Gil:

Have you installed the Infrastructure Update (July 14, 2008)? I think you
can solve your problem once you install this, however note that the task
approvals page is going to be ugly, no matter what you do. As for the posts,
there must be at least 50 in the last few weeks that I can't see either. I
post directly to the Microsoft servers, and sometimes the servers in the
farm get out of synchronization. Depending on which server that Google is
synching to, things get all messed up when this happens. There's nothing so
frustratring as looking at the group list, not seeing your reply and knowing
that you posted one!


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[Gil]

Gil:

Have you installed the Infrastructure Update (July 14, 2008)? I think you
can solve your problem once you install this, however note that the task
approvals page is going to be ugly, no matter what you do. As for the posts,
there must be at least 50 in the last few weeks that I can't see either. I
post directly to the Microsoft servers, and sometimes the servers in the
farm get out of synchronization. Depending on which server that Google is
synching to, things get all messed up when this happens. There's nothing so
frustratring as looking at the group list, not seeing your reply and knowing
that you posted one!

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Gary L. Chefetz, MVP
MSProjectExperts
Project Server Consulting:http://www.msprojectexperts.com
Project Server Training:http://www.projectservertraining.com
Project Server FAQS:http://www.projectserverexperts.com
Project Server Help Blog:http://www.projectserverhelp.com







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Gary:
Although I want to, I haven't installed the infrastructure update yet,
because my IT people are facing an error with this installation, and
they can not solve it. I posted a question about it here
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...a8e33ae5347/53e14203dc652e9c#53e14203dc652e9c
but didn't get any answers.. (posted also at the Sharepoint group).
And for the posts, I hope at least you get to read the many "thank
you" replies from the people you give help to..

Gil.