Percent Plan in Microsoft Project – Part 4

This post continues the discussion on the tracking model based on the % Plan custom field. In the previous posts we defined the % Plan field and the formula that calculate the planned value according to the baseline and the status date for every task in the project, including the summary tasks. We used other Read more about Percent Plan in Microsoft Project – Part 4[…]

Percent plan in Microsoft Project – Part 3

This post continues the definition of the tracking model based on the % Plan custom field. We will use custom fields to create a performance index that compares the % Complete with the % Plan values. You may want to check out the previous articles before this one in order for you to have the Read more about Percent plan in Microsoft Project – Part 3[…]

Percent Plan in Microsoft Project – Part 2

This article continues the definition of the tracking model based on the % Plan custom field. Now, we will change the % Plan to a percentage format and we will also calculate a variance indicator between the % Plan and the % Complete. The initial definition of the percent plan model is in the previous article of Read more about Percent Plan in Microsoft Project – Part 2[…]

Percent plan in Microsoft Project – Part 1

Recurrently in my consulting and training work on Microsoft Project, emerges the question of how to calculate the percentage planned progress of tasks. In this article, I will start providing an answer. Note: The concepts and formulas in this article work well for the 2010, 2013, 2016 versions of Microsoft Project. The formula for planned advance The question Read more about Percent plan in Microsoft Project – Part 1[…]