milestone gantt

You don’t see 30% because that’s not how MSP calculates Summary % Complete,

especially if you only have Milestones.

Even if you have, say, 10 tasks which have some duration, say 1 Day, those

10 tasks may be distributed in any of any number of ways, over any overall

duration, say 20 days, and then various of those tasks may each be not

started yet, or somwhat complete or 100% Complete.

How is MSP (or you) to calculate Summary % Complete which accounts for all

possibilities, and also always "looks right" visually?

It’s a compromise. We accept the MSP Summary % Complete calculation and

don’t attach much much meaning to it because there isn’t much.



What if your 10 Milestones are spread across 10 days (with date constraints

or lag, or other predecessors), with, say, the 3 complete ones all at the

very start, and the others at the very end? Is 30% for the Summary still

what you expect?

I think ( and I stand to be corrected) it is to do with the zero duration value of the milestones.



You can give each milestone a 1 day duration and then mark the task as a miletone on the activity form. By doing this "progress" should roll up to the summary bar.



Cheers

Hi Asaf



When they are all set to 100% it will showw 100%.



The option in a milestone is either 0 or 100 and MSP cannot do sub percents in its summary.



PowerProject does add up completed milestones.



What sort of weird project are you working on anyway.



Best regards



Mike Testro