Tips for tracking and progress

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      William Holbrook
      Keymaster

      Hello,

      I’m using Project 2007 to track my project. I’m pretty good at inputting stuff and understand constraints and links etc but I’m never sure how to use project to its max when it comes to tracking etc. Can anyone give me a list of stuff to look at which will help me to identify where resources are under utilised, project slippage, tracking, baselining (not sure about multiple baselines, interim plans) and priority? I need a number of ways to be able to really track my project successfully to make sure everything stays on track, but what to do if things don’t.  Any tips/advice gratefully received. Thanks.

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      William Holbrook
      Keymaster

      Capturing the baseline is vital if you want to track actuals and see the variance.  I tend to use the tracking table to update actuals as I can put in the actual duration and the estimate to completion, when we actually started etc.  The update tasks button on the tracking tool bar is also excellent for accessing many of the fields in the tracking gantt.

      Have a look at the detailed gantt for slippage and float – I think this is a brilliant gantt chart.

      One of the views I found helpful when looking at resource availabiliy is the resource usage view with the resource group filter applied.  You would need to make sure that each resource had been assigned a group eg programmer.  You can then see other programmers availability.  Right clicking on the time phased grid will also give you access to the remaining availability field.

      Cheers, Sue

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