John ZurfluehProgram Manager| GetingePompton Plains, Nj, United States
Hoping someone can offer a quick answer to what I believe is a simple question.
Does MS Project use %Complete solely against duration? So, for example, if I were to run Tools - Tracking - Update Project so that tasks are updated to reflect % complete for todays date it would calculate against the task duration and not account for % work complete.
I am not 100% sure if I understood your question correctly, but I believe that % complete in MS Project is measured against effort, not duration (athough effort and duration will be identical if you have a single 100% resource assigned to the task in question).
However, this is exactly why we let the project contributors estimate the effort-to-complete for their assignments and then let the system calculate the % complete via simple, linear projection. Entering % completes manually is always a tedious task, since it is hard to measure realistically -- at least in my opinion...
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Digvijay SinghProject Manager| Mastek LimitedPune, India
I am sure of this that '% Complete' is calculated against duration and '% Work complete' is calculated against work efforts. So you may need to utilize both the fields to do your data analysis.
I observed this section is not much used for such questions, better put in project management central discussion forum if you have similar questions on MS project or any management issue. Saving Changes...
Bernard GorePortfolio, Programme & Project Professional| NZ PoliceWellington, New Zealand
MS Project has fields for both %complete and %Work complete, so you can use either or both.
%complete is intended in MS Project to be based on duration, however this is not set in stone and you can use it differently so long as you are consistent.
By the way, please don't use the acronym MSP for MS-Project, as that is in use for the Programme methodology "Managing Successful Programmes" so can cause confusion. Saving Changes...
