Separate the task percentage using Ms. Project

Question

Hi all, 

I would like to separate the task percentage of my project , eg.

1. Task A -> 30% , if all task A completed, %Complete project is 30%
2. Task B -> 40% , if all task B completed, %Complete project is 70%
3. Task C -> 20% , if all task C completed, %Complete project is 90%
4. Task D -> 10% , if all task D completed, %Complete project is 100%

How to make ms project could be do this without calculate of days of task ?

Thanks

Answer 1

Pardon me for bumping in - but you cannot have % work complete in any manner if you do not enter in "days of task." You can certainly calculate duration if you assign resources and work, but without some values - project cannot calculate % complete nor % work complete.

You may be best with Excel and calculating your values for each Task.  You cannot calculate different values for each task (row) in Project.

Answer 2

Do you have a problem?

When you say "actual work", do you mean people x hours = people hours.

This is what MSP (and everyone) calls work. In MSP, if you assign a person at 100% to a task with duration = 1 day, where 1 day has 8 hours, then work = 8 hours. MSP has a field % work complete = actual work/work where work = actual work + remaining work.

Three things only:

Duration: actual, remaining, total, %

Work: actual, remaining, total, %

Cost: actual, remaining, total, but no % although it is easy to make one from a spare field if required

You cannot force the summary % complete (duration) or % work complete to be what you want them to be because they are whatever they are calculated to be from the % of the tasks under each summary.

Answer 3

Hi,Trevor. 

Thank you for information. I already read the article, However I mean is that percentage is not based on the duration, but the actual work completed

Do you have a solution for my problem? 

Thank you.

Answer 4

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/101495

Answer 5

You can't do this.

This is not how it works.

% complete = actual duration/duration where duration = actual duration + remaining duration.