Hello Planners,

I am working as a Project Control engineer in one of leading DEC.

I have a query regarding Actual progress calculation while updating progress of an detail engineering project.

We all know during lifecycle of a project many scope changes are raised. And after getting approval from Project Manager and Client, we are incorporating this changes in our Schedule baseline also. But in actual practice, it is not feasible to incorporate this scope change as soon as it is raised. (I mean to say, we are not going to change our baseline 10 times if we are getting small 10 scope changes. But yes, if it is big scope change impacting schedule we will surely change baseline). But we are waiting for proper phase in a project where it is found that actual schedule baseline is not valid now and we need a new baseline and at that point of time we are incorporating those approved changes in new schedule baseline.

So meanwhile once scope change is approved from client and till it is not included in schedule baseline, we are parking those man-hours as a forecast man-hours.

So now my query is that while calculating Actual progress percentage completed during these phase of project, which man-hours we should consider - Original Schedule man-hours  or Forecast man-hours which includes approved scope change hours?

Hope I have made my question clear and hoping for a solution for my query.

Thanking you in advance.

Regards,

D. Gaglani