Re: progress %

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Tasks start with verbs, things that people have to do.
It may seem a trivial distinction, but this goes to the core of the concept
of what a project is and what project scope is.
So your project doesn't have any tasks and you are not doing project
management, and there will be no such thing as progress.
If you are doing something which does not produce some sort of tangible
deliverable, what is your client paying for?
Do you write code, publish a report, or what?
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Trevor Rabey
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"shlomimh" <shlomimh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm working in an IT departement, so it's a little hard to measure the
completed work- because it's not tangible like laying bricks...
The kind of tasks that I have is: characterization, development, QA ext.

"Trevor Rabey - Perfect Project Planning" wrote:

There is no such thing as "subjective progress", or if there is, it's
worthless.
You can only analyse what you can measure, and you can only measure what
you
model and track.
If a task is "shoot 3000 pigeons" or "lay 10000 bricks", and you model
duration in working days, Work in Hours and Cost in $, then you have 4
things you can measure and analyse and compare, ie Pigeons, Days, Hours
and
Dollars.
MSP knows about Days, Hours and Dollars and you can count the pigeons.
If you have tasks that you can't measure then you only have Days, Hours
and
Dollars.
What kind of tasks do you have?
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Trevor Rabey
0407213955
61 8 92727485
PERFECT PROJECT PLANNING
www.perfectproject.com.au

"shlomimh" <shlomimh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thank you for responding,
the only problem is that we don't manage our budget with MS Project,
so I the cost fields are empty...
Is there another solution?
Shlomi

"Dave" wrote:

Sounds like a standard earned value question.

You've consumed half the baseline hours but not actually accomplished
half the planned work.

You could look at cost variance fields but the answer depends on how
you
want to measure it.

You will need to have a baseline saved in order to achieve this.

shlomimh wrote:
Hello, I'm working with Project Server 2003, and I'm looking for a
way
to
report the subjective progress of activity. The purpose is to find
the
activities that, for example, used 50% of their work, but the actual
progress
was lower.
Is there any field that provides me that information?
Thank you,
Shlomi, Israel.






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