Using MS Project to indicate assignment Slippage in a Gannt Chart

Gannt Diagram Tutorial Objective:

Instruct an effective mechanism to display slippage of a project task on a different row of the Gannt Diagram based upon the set schedule without updating the start date of the task:

Using a project plan which has baselined alread:
A assignment is forecasted to kickoff on 10/22 finishing on 10/24. As of today, 10/27, the WBS items have not started.

The completed Gannt should display:

• Baseline begin 10/22 - baselined ending 10/24
• Projected begin 10/27 - ending 10/29.

How to make it:

The first step is to perform schedule maintenance in Microsoft Project so that:

1. No unstarted work remains earlier than the Status Date
2. No work remains unfinished having a finish date earlier than the Status Date.
3. No Actual Begin Date is later than Status Date.
4. No Actual Start is later than Status Date.

Without having Project using % Completed when running schedule maintenance, MS Project can't tell the best way to help you.

Here are a couple things you can do to output the targeted Gannt view:

• View/Tracking Gannt:
  Project presents a view with the Gannt bars for both baseline and current schedule forecast in order.
  
• Select Format/Gannt Chart Wizard:
  Select Baseline and run from there.
  
• Tools/Tracking/Update Project:
  Select the menu item to reschedule incomplete work so that it starts after mm/dd/yyyy
  Fortunately, Microsoft Project provides the status date through the process.
 

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