Projecting Finish Dates
Projecting Finish Dates
(OP)
How do you show project finish dates that are based on the actual start and % completion? For example, I have schedule where I entered actual start of 11/12/03, duration is 10 working days and task is 80% complete. Project is showing a finish date of 11/25/03. How can this be true if today is 3/4/04 and the task is not yet complete?





RE: Projecting Finish Dates
What you can do is to baseline the schedule and put in the new estimated end date.
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RE: Projecting Finish Dates
DC
RE: Projecting Finish Dates
RE: Projecting Finish Dates
RE: Projecting Finish Dates
- Enter the advance per activity.
- Make sure you tell MSProject the status date of the project by going to Menu>Project>Project Information>Status Date (here you enter the status date)
- Then go to Tools>Tracking>Update Project
- Check the radio button "Reschedule uncompleted work to start" (put the status date if other)
- Press OK.
Project will reschedule uncompleted work (your remaining 20%), i.e. 2 days in your example, to start from the status date on.
Note: if after doing this, it is not showing an accurate en date as it will happen, then you have to modify the duration of your activity.