Capítulo 2. Teorías y conceptos para la comprensión de los saberes
2.6 Los estudios del discurso y su aplicación en el campo de los saberes
One way to keep your schedule up to date is to record what actually happens for each task in your project. You can record each task’s actual start, finish, work, and duration values. When you enter these values, Project updates the schedule and cal culates the task’s completion percentage. Project uses the following rules:
■ When you enter a task’s actual start date, Project moves the scheduled start date to match the actual start date.
■ When you enter a task’s actual duration, if it is less than the scheduled duration, Project subtracts the actual duration from the scheduled duration to determine the remaining duration.
■ When you enter a task’s actual duration, if it is equal to the scheduled duration, Project sets the task to 100 percent complete.
■ When you enter a task’s actual duration, if it is longer than the scheduled dura tion, Project adjusts the scheduled duration to match the actual duration and sets the task to 100 percent complete.
Suppose that a few more days have passed and work on the TV commercial has pro gressed. In this exercise, you record actual work values for some tasks, and start dates and durations for other tasks.
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In the Track pane, click the Prepare to track the progress of your project link.2
If you have Project Professional, you’ll see an additional pane that relates to usingProject Server to collect actuals from resources. In the Step 1 pane, click No, and then click Save and go to Step 2. If you have Project Standard, you won’t see this pane.
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Select the Always track by entering the Actual Work Done and Work Remaining option, and then click the Done link (in Project Standard) or the Save and Finish link (in Project Professional).Project updates the Project Guide: Custom Tracking view to the right. In the Actual Work and Remaining Work columns in the Project Guide: Custom Tracking view, you will enter actual and remaining work values of the next few tasks.
In the chart portion of the Custom Tracking view, you can see that task 5 is cur rently 50 percent complete, and in the table portion of the view, you can see the resulting hour values of work that this percentage corresponds to. You want to record that the task is now complete but required more work than expected.
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In the Track pane, click the Incorporate progress information into the project link.The Incorporate Progress pane appears. Here you can set the status date and read about how to enter values in the Actual Work or Remaining Work fields. In this chapter, you won’t change the status date directly.
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Click the Show/Hide Project Guide button on the Project Guide toolbar. Show/Hide The Project Guide closes.Project Guide
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In the Actual Work field for task 5, type or select 80, and then pressF
. Project records that 80 hours of work have been completed on task 5. It extends the Gantt bar of the task to indicate its longer duration and reschedules subse quent tasks.Your screen should look similar to the following illustration:
Now suppose that more time has passed. To conclude this exercise, you will enter actual start dates and durations of tasks.
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In the Task Name column, click task 8, Rehearse.This task started one working day behind schedule (the Monday after its scheduled start date) and took a total of three days to complete. You will record this informa tion in fields that are not in the Project Guide: Custom Tracking view by default. You could insert the fields, switch to a different table that includes them, or (as you will do now) enter the values in the Update Tasks dialog box.
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On the Tools menu, point to Tracking, and then click Update Tasks.The Update Tasks dialog box appears. This dialog box shows both the actual and scheduled values for the task’s duration, start, and finish, as well as its remaining duration. In it, you can update the actual and remaining values.
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In the Start field in the Actual box on the left side of the dialog box, type or select 1/17/05.11
Click the OK button.Project records the actual start date and duration of the task. Your screen should look similar to the following illustration:
To conclude this exercise, you will record that task 9 started on time but took longer than planned to complete.
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In the Task Name column, click task 9, Shoot Video.13
On the Tools menu, point to Tracking, and then click Update Tasks. The Update Tasks dialog box appears.14
In the Actual dur field, type or select 3d, and then click the OK button.Project records the actual duration of the task. Your screen should look similar to the following illustration:
Because you did not specify an actual start date, Project assumes that the task started as scheduled, but the actual duration you entered causes Project to calcu late an actual finish date that is later than the originally scheduled finish date.