Hi,
I have been posted to another project site and that is supposed to finish by 31 Dec this year. And have some strange result of man-hour report in the programme. The Remaining Late Units man-hors finishing 19 weeks (Nov 2016) earlier then the Remaining Early Units man-hours at the data date April 2016. The project finish date has projected up to Aug 2016. I couldn’t understand that, if anyone can explain me how / why this happens.
Cheers Tanveer
The late units is associated with the late dates. The early units are associated with the early dates.
Do you understand the forward and backward pass that the schedule algorithm performs when determining dates ?
The forward pass begins at the project start date (if the project has not yet started) or a the data date and goes forward in time from the data date and takes into consideration the activity logic, durations, calendars and any hard constraint dates and computes the EARLY start and EARLY finish dates. Based on where you are on your project (as far as progress is concerned) as of the data date this is the EARLIEST that activities can start or finish.
The backward pass begins at the project completion date (or the project must finish by date) and backward forward in time and takes into consideration the activity logic, durations, calendars and any hard constraint dates and computes the LATE start and LATE finish dates. Based on where you are on your project (as far as progress is concerned) as of the data date this is the LATEST that activities can start or finish.