Tom, thanks for the video. I have a few questions. 1. When tasks are auto scheduled and you go and update the Actual Start, Actual Finish and Actual Hours, Project automatically changes the planned start and planned finish dates as well for that task. this has a chain effect, which results in project auto changing the planned start and planned finish for all the future tasks linked to this task. which results in changes in project planned timeline and milestone planned dates and also changes the project Planned finish date. why is project changing the planned start and planned finish dates, as these are the dates that team looks at to see when they need to start working on the task. Problem is if one team member finishes his task early and puts the actual finish date as he finished earlier, any linked tasks of other team members now will have the planned dates change to an earlier date and earlier finish. Team look at task planned Start and Planned finish to work but if these keep changing due to e someone finishing their work early, they cannot plan their work. I think this is a major issue, in turn as PM now the project is also chaining the project planned end date, every time someone updates the actual finish date of task. Which is a major risk. Let me know if this make sense.
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Tom, thanks for the video.
I have a few questions.
1. When tasks are auto scheduled and you go and update the Actual Start, Actual Finish and Actual Hours, Project automatically changes the planned start and planned finish dates as well for that task. this has a chain effect, which results in project auto changing the planned start and planned finish for all the future tasks linked to this task.
which results in changes in project planned timeline and milestone planned dates and also changes the project Planned finish date.
why is project changing the planned start and planned finish dates, as these are the dates that team looks at to see when they need to start working on the task.
Problem is if one team member finishes his task early and puts the actual finish date as he finished earlier, any linked tasks of other team members now will have the planned dates change to an earlier date and earlier finish. Team look at task planned Start and Planned finish to work but if these keep changing due to e someone finishing their work early, they cannot plan their work. I think this is a major issue, in turn as PM now the project is also chaining the project planned end date, every time someone updates the actual finish date of task. Which is a major risk.
Let me know if this make sense.
Are you able to tell me why sometimes the duration changes to decimal places when I have only ever specified whole days?