Microsoft Project Step by Step (covering Project Online Desktop Client)

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Track progress: Basic techniques

In this chapter

• Understand progress tracking

• Save a baseline of your plan

• Track a plan as scheduled

• Enter a task’s completion percentage

• Enter actual values for tasks

Up to this point, you have focused on project planning—developing and communicating the details of a plan before actual work begins. When work begins, so does the next phase of project management: tracking progress. Tracking means recording details such as who did what work, when the work was done, and what the cost was. These details are often called actuals. As you start tracking actuals on tasks, several things happen. As you record progress on a task, Project Online desktop client calculates actual and remaining cost, work, and duration ...