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Scheuling In MS Project 98

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by taridouye_d_gagariga

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We were recently asked to prepare schedules for on going projects and reflect the following details on the schedule.
(a) Planned Work
(b) Actual Work
(c) Notes On Causes of dealys

The major problem faced by the engineers was that anytime the actual work schedule was entered, the bars in the Gnatt chart moved.

What our management wants is to be able to view two sets of bars, one showing the planned work and the other showing the actual work for each task.

How do we go about this?Our tenporary solution was to enter the actual work as a separate task.

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by sridharpandu

Enter the actual work as a percentage of the original work completed. This would show two bars one over the other, however the decision on how much work has been completed rests entirely on humans!! Then you would also be able to churn out reports on slacks and delays.

Best regards,

by shanghai sam

Thank you for the reply
However, the Problem is not with adding the actual work as a percentage. I know about that and have tried it. My question is what happens when the actual work has been completed (100%) and it started say three weeks behind schedule? When you try to input this, the task bar for the initial works shifts. This is what I am trying to avoid. We want to view both initial and actual for what it is.
I want a situation where upon completion of the entire project, one can view the overall planned progress as against the actaul plan.

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