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Is there a video on statusing resource loaded schedules? Is that any different?

Hi . Can I set auto status date periodic weekly on Ms project not manually

what version msproject profesional do you have

shouldn't you "set the baseline" first so the baseline start and baseline finish dates are saved. So whatever changes you make on the duration or on the "Start" or "finish" wont affect the baseline... im not a pro, just thinking if setting the baseline should be in the initial procedures. i think it should..

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Export the Azure, Chat GPT, Revit, Plant 3D, Civil 3D, Inventor, ENGI file of the Building or Refinery to Excel, prepare Budget 1 and export it to COBRA. Prepare Budget 2 and export it to Microsoft Project. Solve the problems of Overallocated Resources, Planning Problems, prepare the Budget 3 with which the construction of the Building or the Refinery is going to be quoted.

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Export the Azure, Chat GPT, Revit, Plant 3D, Civil 3D, Inventor, ENGI file of the Building or Refinery to Excel, prepare Budget 1 and export it to COBRA. Prepare Budget 2 and export it to Microsoft Project. Solve the problems of Overallocated Resources, Planning Problems, prepare the Budget 3 with which the construction of the Building or the Refinery is going to be quoted.

When is this coming out?

This is awesome!

Great ! Before and after files can be recorded and make quick updates to the live file when the BCR is approved !

Great video - I use "Mark On Track" 100% of the time, after making the other necessary adjustments, as it makes doing updates so easy. I have never used the Remaining Duration field and honestly don't see any advantage in using it over the Duration Field. Maybe I missed something? I have PMs tell me all the time that they believe that a task is, for example, 60% complete. I apply Mark on Track and, in most cases the calculated % Complete ends up being +/- 10% of their guess. By the time the following week rolls around the PM is once again taking a guess and it's all very close. Thanks for the video.

Great video! Any video that explains the change to remaining work when you mark on track? I have schedulers who don’t understand the importance of marking on track and how that affects remainingresource export

Hi Kenny - I frequently use the "Status" column in MSP. The way you updated the status of the tasks, in the Status column it shows that Task A, which is going to finish after the original projected finish date, is "on Schedule" when really the task is "Late". Is there a proper way to Update a task and have it show "Late" in the Status column? Thanks!

Kenny, really insightful - thanks 😀

completely practical

Excellent explanation. I am having a contractor argue with me that he don't have to update the status date and questioning why he has to. I am going to send him this link so he can hear it from the MASTER. Thank you Kenny!

Great insight in tasks progress. Percentage complete is actually time based value.

Kenny, I love your videos and I especially like your example at 10:36 where the guys say "no, no, no" when asked if they think we should extend the remaining duration and the finish date. Of course they don't want to. They know that task has successors and they know that extending the planned finish will have consequences, so they pretend it is not going to happen. But whether they choose to plan for it or not, it will happen. I would not ask for a forecast finish date, but rather a remaining duration. "but it is the same thing" I hear you say. Well, when we first planned the project we did not estimate dates and we did not ask people to estimate dates. We estimated durations, which is remaining duration entirely if there is no actual, and we let the combination of durations and predecessors determine the dates. Same thing applies part way through the project at any given status date, where the update includes both re-planning and re-scheduling. So I would not ask for dates and even reluctant to ask for remaining duration. Rather, if you have a 50 and 60 that implies, by default, that the remaining duration should be 3 days, not 2, unless someone can give a good reason why not. And not just something like, "well, we did not work very hard for 3 days but we intend to work harder for the next 2 days". The model is trying to tell you something. If you ignore it then in 2 days at the next status date the task will not be actually finished, and the remaining duration will be 1 day.

Very nice! An especially good job of explaining the benefits of using critical path drag to identify the best places to go to compress a project schedule. Nice job!

Thank you for yhe explanation . Can you show how to use these two fields physical % vs % complete in burndown chart?

Awsome Video, i think is the only one in all youtube that explain very well this, i would like to know how should be properly updated once we ad som Work mhrs. caouse seems work and % complete are related even when what i want is to relate Work% Complete with Physical % Complete

I don't quite understand how can I keep track of late tasks. Example: today is 1 Jan 2024. The task was supposed to finish on 25 Dec 2023. But it's delayed and will only be completed on 7 Jan 2024. According to your guide, I'd have to adjust the remaining duration, so the new value of the Finish field would be 7 Jan 2024. So, this task is a late task, but MS Project won't highlight this task to me as a late task simply because the updated finish task is in the future. Is there any way around this? Thank you!

This is great instruction. Thanks for putting this together.

The actual people doing the work and know the dates, should be the actual people updating the schedule. This is a critical failure in the planning world. That being said, kinda cool to watch this. Seeing updates to MSP where people are clueless about the status date is hilarious. Might want to check out your other videos.

what happens if your actual start and baseline start are different - if you make mark on track will it not affect the actual start to align with the baseline start?

Thank you for your wonderful demonstration. however, there is no SSI analysis tools in my ribbon. Any help?

My malware software blocks your website, you have malware on it. I want to use your ssi tools, but I am unwilling to jeperdise my computer.

I would also use a baseline before making any changes to the status so that forecast and actuals can be retained for retrospective analysis. Perhaps this should have been covered. Otherwise, this is a very useful and informative video - many thanks.

Another way to consider is to follow the following sequence (assuming tasks are set to Fixed Work): 1. Enter Actual start, 2. Enter Actual Work, 3. Enter remaining work (enter zero if it is complete), 4. Enter Actual finish. Also, make sure to use the calculation options (Options-Advanced): Move end of completed parts ... and Move start of remaining parts. This will ensure that no incomplete work is left in the past (before the status date). Using work makes it a lot easier to reflect a true completion % because at the end of the day, when human beings are working, effort measured in time is the critical factor.

I've been using MS projects in the wrong way; you really opened my eyes.

What about tasks which were expected to start before status date but haven’t started yet. How do I get projected completion date of that task. Is there any way apart from rescheduling uncompleted work after status date.??

The best video i have seen to date explaining this process!! Thank you :)

Thank You for your detail explanation. I have questions regarding summary % in your example was 0.

I have some feedback. 1) Although you can see the Assessment Counts and and Optional Additional Audits in the little side window, when you Export Results, they don't appear in the export. 2) In the previous version, new tabs would be created for each of the 14 points even if the result was zero. New version does not do that, however my customer is used to seeing it. 3) The export used to include float data such as, Float<0, Float=0, Float 0-22, Float 23-44, Float>44. I don't see that anywhere and I need that data for another customer deliverable. 4) In the little side window, when you have several options expanded such as the Assessment Count, Optional Additional Audits and Options, you can't see everything and there is no scroll bar. You have to collapse everything to see the different sections.

So, all the percentages you get from the person in charge of the task should go into the “physical % complete? Also, I imagine that changing task relationships just to get rid of the “out of sequence” condition should be made after an analysis, not just changing for the sake of solving the “out of sequence” condition.

At the end, you still have a SNET date constraint on c. Even though the person has an "intended" start date, the task should still be scheduled asap. Why? Because that's basic CPM, and it doesn't work if there are date constraints in the network. We don't input dates when the project is first planned, and we shouldn't start doing it after we start tracking progress.

Once task c has an actual start date, its predecessors are irrelevant. There is no need to make the dummy FS link from A to replace the FS link from B to c which was obviously wrong.

I see so many Master Schedulers, with 20 - 30 years of experience, updating task status using % Complete, and it is a huge pet peeve of mine. Of course these very experienced schedulers understand how to fix the issues caused by doing this, but it perpetuates a bad practice that junior schedulers then pick up.

Very well explained and this should be basic training for PMs or schedulers.

You did not take any account of the Physical % Complete, ie 60% Physical % Complete, except to type it in. It implies that % Complete should equal Physical % Complete. We need a new duration and new remaining duration. New Duration = 12/0.6 = 20 days, New remaining duration = 20 - 12 = 8 Days.

There is no need to insert the extra columns/fields into the entry table. There is a tracking table which has all of those fields. Instead of asking when the task started, surely it is necessary to ask first if it has actually started?

In which version of MS projects, this assessment tool is available?

How do I get that tab for SSI tools? I assumed it would be in setting and under customize ribbon, but it doesn't seem to be there.