Showing slipped tasks in a Gantt Chart

[JoeR]

I have a baselined project plan. One of the tasks has a projected start date
of 8/12 finishing on 8/14. As of today, 8/17, the task has not started. Is
there a way I can show under the baseline line in the Gantt another line
showing the slippage based on the current date without resetting the start
date? So the result would be baseline start 8/14, baseline finish 8/14.
Projected start 8/17 - finish 8/19.

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

 

[Jim Aksel]

Of course. First, you need to perform schedule maintenance so:
1. No unstarted work to the left of the Status Date
2. No unfinished work with a finish date less than Status Date.
3. No Actual Start > Status date
4. No Actual Finish > Status date.

Try View/Tracking Gantt. It should show you a view with the baseline bars
and current forecasted schedule bars one on top of the other. If not...

Format/Gantt Chart Wizard... select Baseline and go from there.
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[JoeR]

Thanks for the quick response. I kind of thought I'd have to do schedule
maintenance but was hoping to somehow get the same results automatically
based on the status date.

 

[Jim Aksel]

Tools/Tracking/Update Project...
Select the option to reschedule incomplete work to start after mm/dd/yyyy
Fortunately, Project supplies the date as the status date for you.

Without schedule maintenance and taking %Complete, Project has no way to
know how to help you. Sorry.
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