How Open Plan Uses Progress Information
Once you have entered progress for a project, you can calculate new dates for the activities using either time analysis or resource scheduling.
The following guidelines explain how Open Plan uses the progressing information when it calculates the new schedule.
- 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 predecessor activities have not been completed), Open Plan accepts the information.
- Open Plan ignores Actual Start dates later than Time Now.
- 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 only for the remaining portion of the activity.
- If an activity is complete but does not have actual dates, Open Plan calculates the finish date as Time Now.