Task Tracking
Rescheduling Incomplete Work As Part of a Project’s 4-Step Tracking Cycle
In the first two articles of this series, a four-step tracking cycle was defined. It includes setting the status date, entering actuals, rescheduling incomplete work, and resource leveling the remaini...
Microsoft Project Do’s and Don’ts: Identifying Early and Future Task Tracking
As project managers, I suspect we’ve all considered starting or completing work in the future. When you think about it, although jumping ahead to tracking future work could seem handy, this ability ha...
How To Reschedule Incomplete Work
A colleague posed a problem recently. He recorded earned value after tracking work done in the first status period of his project. When recording work done in the second status period, he returned to ...
How to Manage Task Progress in Microsoft Project?
As you know, Microsoft Project is a tool for planning and tracking progress of given projects. While there is a lot of time invested for project planning, people (call them Project Managers) usually h...
Ask the Experts: Building What-if Slack Time into Your Schedule
Casper of Dallas, TX asks: Our projects are subject to the weather for our installations. We build into our schedules and contracts at least 30 days of weather cushion (about one per week). What would...