Gannt Chart Tutorial Objective:
Instruct the way to convey assignment slippage on the next row of the Gannt Chart using the existing task without updating the start date of the task:
With a plan that has already been baselined:
A task is planned to kickoff on 10/22 completing on 10/24. Today, 10/27, the assignments didn't kick-off yet.
The final Gannt needs to convey:
- Baselined begin 10/22 - forecasted conclusion 10/24
- Projected begin 10/27 - conclusion 10/29.
What to do:
The first step is to perform schedule maintenance in MS Project so that:
- No work remains unstarted before the Date used for Status
- No incomplete work with a completion date earlier than the Date used for Status.
- No Actual Start is later than Date used for Status.
- No Actual Completion Date is later than Date used for Status.
If you don't have Project using percent Completed when running schedule maintenance, Project can't tell how it can adjust the timeline.
This is just several things you can do to output the desired Gannt view:
- View/Tracking Gannt:
It presents a view with the timeline lines for both forecasted and baselined right after one another.
- Select Format/Gannt Chart Wizard:
Click Baseline and run from there.
- Tools/Tracking/Update Project:
Click the menu item to reschedule incomplete work so that it starts after mm/dd/yyyy
Fortunately, Microsoft Project supplies the status date as part of the process.
