The Difference Between "% COMPLETE" and "PHYSICAL % COMPLETE" in Microsoft Project

[@trevorrabey736]

Kenny, I love your videos and I especially like your example at 10:36 where the guys say "no, no, no" when asked if they think we should extend the remaining duration and the finish date. Of course they don't want to. They know that task has successors and they know that extending the planned finish will have consequences, so they pretend it is not going to happen. But whether they choose to plan for it or not, it will happen. I would not ask for a forecast finish date, but rather a remaining duration. "but it is the same thing" I hear you say. Well, when we first planned the project we did not estimate dates and we did not ask people to estimate dates. We estimated durations, which is remaining duration entirely if there is no actual, and we let the combination of durations and predecessors determine the dates. Same thing applies part way through the project at any given status date, where the update includes both re-planning and re-scheduling. So I would not ask for dates and even reluctant to ask for remaining duration. Rather, if you have a 50 and 60 that implies, by default, that the remaining duration should be 3 days, not 2, unless someone can give a good reason why not. And not just something like, "well, we did not work very hard for 3 days but we intend to work harder for the next 2 days". The model is trying to tell you something. If you ignore it then in 2 days at the next status date the task will not be actually finished, and the remaining duration will be 1 day.

[@anialikaj878]

Thank You for your detail explanation. I have questions regarding summary % in your example was 0.

[@StructuredSolutionsInc]

Hi Ani, the summary "% Complete" is automatically calculated by MS Project based on how many days of actual duration are on the child tasks under the summary. Physical % Complete is a manually entered number, even on summary tasks. I would not recommend worrying about the % Complete or Physical % Complete on summaries because summaries are just an abstract rollup of a collection of tasks. We do not status them, just the tasks under them.

[@osmanreddy1]

Thank you for yhe explanation . Can you show how to use these two fields physical % vs % complete in burndown chart?

[@roldanduarteholguin7102]

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