What is the advised way to handle the following case?
- An activity was planned with Assigned work: 8 h to Resource A.
- This assigned work was found by Resource A (while performing the activity) to be exaggerating the required effort which is actually 1 h.
- Resource A reported the 1 h as real work and the activity was marked by the Project Leader as done
- Now, the activity cannot be removed from the Real work allocation screen as there is still left work of 7 h.
- The activity also cannot be closed due the error Invalid controls. Unable to close an element with left work.
- The Project Leader set the validated work to 1 hr.
- The activity still cannot be closed due to the same error in addition to the indicator reassessed work compared to validated work
Is their a way to keep the information that the planned assigned work was incorrect and that the real work was enough to mark the activity as completed?
We faced this case several times. The easy way is to make the assigned work itself equal 1 h (so there is no more left work required). However, this would hide the fact that the planned assigned work was not accurate and does not give us the opportunity to enhance the accuracy of the estimation of the workloads and hence the accuracy of planning.
- An activity was planned with Assigned work: 8 h to Resource A.
- This assigned work was found by Resource A (while performing the activity) to be exaggerating the required effort which is actually 1 h.
- Resource A reported the 1 h as real work and the activity was marked by the Project Leader as done
- Now, the activity cannot be removed from the Real work allocation screen as there is still left work of 7 h.
- The activity also cannot be closed due the error Invalid controls. Unable to close an element with left work.
- The Project Leader set the validated work to 1 hr.
- The activity still cannot be closed due to the same error in addition to the indicator reassessed work compared to validated work
Is their a way to keep the information that the planned assigned work was incorrect and that the real work was enough to mark the activity as completed?
We faced this case several times. The easy way is to make the assigned work itself equal 1 h (so there is no more left work required). However, this would hide the fact that the planned assigned work was not accurate and does not give us the opportunity to enhance the accuracy of the estimation of the workloads and hence the accuracy of planning.