Gopal MahalingamEngineering Manager| Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions LtdCoimbatore, Tamilnadu, India
Currently i am in design phase and need to calculate the progress of completion for each module.
while using the estimated and actual efforts i am not able to show the progress 100%. beacuse some times the actual efforts might overshoot the estimated efforts.
Is it a good practice to calculate the progress of completion using the efforts Saving Changes...
It's usually not a good practice to use the actual efforts to calculate the completion. I would strongly recommend to take a look at the all the concepts around Earned Value management (from the PMI or similar concepts from any other source).
In a nutshell, you need to realise that 'percentage complete' or 'progress of completion', as a single metric, is not extremely useful. Whay you might want to track is some set of metrics that relate the originally planned cost (or effort), planned duration, the actual cost, the expected remaining cost and duration, etc. This will give a you a lots more meaningful view of the progress than a single calculation.
Hope this helps. Best regards,
Miquel Gantzer Saving Changes...
Gopal MahalingamEngineering Manager| Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions LtdCoimbatore, Tamilnadu, India
Thanks for your suggestion...
I have started gathering information from the EVM.
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Ramakrishna CH PMPDelivery Manager| Value MomentumHackensack, Nj, United States
There are 2 things involved here, as i see. The % Completion of a given phase and the % completion of each task in a phase. Let me answer the second part first, i.e % completion of a given task.
The % completion of a given task is normally measured based on total effort reqd to complete the task and effort spent till date. As most of the time, we don't know the total effort required, till the actual completion of task (don't be misled by Estimated OR planned effort, this is not the final effort one would have spent on the task as Actual can vary from planned), it's always calculated at that point in time based on remaining effort to complete the task. Hope i am clear..Here is it in equation form..
Total effort reqd. to complete = Effort spent till date + remaining effort reqd. to complete the task.
Hence, % complete of a given task =
Effort Spent till date / Total effort reqd to complete the task. Clear ??
Now coming to the first aspect, i.e % complete of a given phase, This can be little subjective based on culture and practise inherent in an organization, but as an euqation one can say,
% complete for the phase OR module =
The no of completed tasks / Total no of tasks for that phas OR /module.
Now the subjectivity is in, how do we interpret a completed task. Some PMs do consider tasks which are 90% complete with little effort remaining, as completed tasks for purpose of calculating % completion for the phase. So, it all depends on Organizational practise and interpretation. Saving Changes...
Gopal MahalingamEngineering Manager| Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions LtdCoimbatore, Tamilnadu, India
Hi Ramakrishna thanks for your brief explanation.. Thanks for your time spent in clarifying my question.
Currently i am following the way you had explained. I agree with you, it is based on the organizational practise.
I was little worried, whether i am following a right method . Because i am in the learning stage, hence i posted the question to make sure with some of the experienced peoples.
