Peter

Agree, if you hv 40,000 drawing to be produce. How can you estimate the overall % complete. As a contractor, you do want to have some of the momey paid prior to 100% complete. And as a Engineer (Client) you do want to know the physical completion, until its too late to know it will be substaintially delay is happened.

Therefore, some sort of methodology need to be form to measure the physical progress. 0/100 or 50/100 or the one that I suggested, or some logical measurement method need to be agreed between the parties. Do you agree! however, these method need to be case by case bases. and client usually not clearly stated in contract of exactly how to measure the progress.

What Kelly is ask for is how to do it in a P3e schedule to plan this, if you read it carefully.

Cheers

Alex

David

Try with STEPS, for use it, must have activate the box "Activity percent complete based on activity steps" on tab "Calculations" on windows "Project", and the % Complete Type the activities must have "Physical", with it you may work with achieve (logros, metas) and you may put "Weight" a the Steps, for example:

Step 1: Format Preparations .... 10%
Step 2: Draw the "Idea" .... 40%
Step 3: Technical feasibility or viability the Idea ...15%
Step 4: Closing of the plane ... 20%
Step 5: Rev. A ... 5%
Step 6: Rev. B ... 5%
Step 7: Rev. C ... 5%

TOTAL ACTIVITY: 100% , You may to synthesize more the steps.

The hours of draw is variable, but you have put the hours approximate. The control by steps can be more easy, remembers that the people know its advance.

Kind Regards

PD. Sorry for my English, it not my native language.
PD. Thank Google for translator.

Kelly,

Assuming that you can actually persuade a designer to give you information like "I am half way through the manhours, but the rest will take me another month" rather than "done half of it" you can record remaining hours and remaining duration separately.

You need to set the percent complete type to "units".

Be VERY careful here. Units percent complete is NOT how much of the budgeted units you have liquidated, but how much of the At Completion units we have achieved. In an environment where you are not recording actuals, P5 will assume that productivity = 1 (i.e. each achieved hour is an expended hour) that means the At completion will always equal the budget, so as long as you are not recording the true actual manhours this will do.


Note that changing an activity’s unit percent complete does NOTHING to the remaining duration. My advice is that after inputing the unit per cent complete, you run a global change to set RD= OD*Activity per cent complete/100, and then manually adjust the remaining durations of those activities where you have the extra information

Of course you can ask a related question. I have question for you. How’s China? :)

ok,

You need to set the following at the project level;

in the calculations tab, set “Recalculate actual units and cost when duration % complete changes” on.

also

“When updating actual units or cost, subtract actual from at completion”

in the defaults tab set;

duration type : Fixed duration and units

Percent complete type : duration (all existing activities should be changed to this)

Activity Type : task dependant.



The two percentage fields for reporting you want are ;

Duration % complete - how much work has been done
Schedule percent complete - how much work you SHOULD have done (note you MUST create a baseline for this field to work)

Yes, you will have to create a resource if you want "s" curves. BUT the percent completes will work without them.

Kelly,

If u make percent complete type to be "Physical Percent Complete", and if u assigned your resources on the activity based on that, then when u update the actual % complete the actual units doesn’t change.

The actual units changes only if u select the percent complete type to be "Units or Duration" percent complete.