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The Effect of Activity Progress Information

Once you have entered progress for activities, you can calculate new early start/finish and late start/finish dates using time analysis and new scheduled start/finish dates using resource scheduling.

Note: After progressing the activities, if you run resource scheduling without first running time analysis, the scheduled start and finish dates calculated will be inaccurate.

The following guidelines explain how Open Plan uses the progress information when it calculates the new schedule.

  • If an activity has an actual start date but no other indication of activity status, Open Plan deduces the elapsed duration of the activity by comparing the actual start date to the Time Now date.
  • If activity status and progress information imply that the activity is complete (for example, if the elapsed duration of the activity exceeds its total duration), Open Plan assumes that the activity is complete.
  • If an activity has out-of-sequence progress (that is, progress has been reported even though activities deemed as predecessors in project logic have not been completed), Open Plan accepts the information but issues a warning in the time analysis session log.
  • Open Plan ignores dates later than Time Now (although a warning is issued in the session log) unless the Observe Actual Future Dates option is enabled.
  • Open Plan calculates progress on a subproject from progress entered at the activity level. Open Plan ignores any progress entered at the subproject level.
  • After evaluating the progress information, Open Plan calculates the early and late dates for the remaining portion of the activity duration only. (Completed activities have their late dates calculated as though the activity duration was zero.) This convention allows Open Plan to retain the maximum information for reporting purposes, including tracing out-of-sequence progress.
Attention: For more information on how Open Plan interprets progress information, see "The Effect of Progress Information" in the Deltek Open Plan Developer's Guide.