Managing Actual Values in Microsoft Project

Follow along with project management experts Bonnie Biafore and John Riopel as they share their tips for recording actual values in Microsoft Project.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Project scenario
• What you need to know
• Using the exercise files

1. Setting Up a Project for Updating

• Fields for updating progress
• Setting Project options for updating
• Building a custom view for updating duration
• Building a custom view for updating work
• Preparing a project for updating

2. Manually Updating Tasks

• Updating tasks that run according to schedule
• Updating completed tasks that didn't run according to schedule
• Rescheduling tasks
• Updating duration for incomplete tasks
• Updating percentage complete for incomplete tasks
• Updating actual and remaining work for incomplete tasks

3. Manually Updating Assignments

• Updating actual and remaining assignment work
• Updating percentage work complete for assignments
• Entering actual work by time period
• Updating cost for cost resources

4. Importing Updates

• Pros and cons of importing progress updates
• Creating a custom view that shows tasks to update
• Creating task update forms for team members
• Importing task updates from Excel

Conclusion

• Next steps