Project Progress Updating Steps:

1. Before Everything, don’t forget to maintain a Baseline and assign it to your project
2. Set the new Data Date of your project (In project View, Dates sub-tab)
3. It is optional to turn on Progress spotlight tool, extend its area in Gant Chart to highlight your focus area in activity List
4. Enter the Actual Start date if only activity Actually started and if actually finished, turn on actual finish check box and put the date of actual Finish (In activities View, Status sub-tab)
5. For under progress activities (Started but Not finished yet), Estimate remaining duration based on the information at the moment and update it in Remaining Duration field, then the Duration % Com calculates automatically (In activities View, Status sub-tab)
6. Update Actual Unit for consumed resources and the software will calculate actual cost automatically. to update actual units, proceed with Resource sub-tab and enter actual unit for each resource separately in Actual unit field. do not enter overall actual unit for whole resources as a bundle (In status sub-tab). Proceed one by one for each resource and activity by activity.
7. Provide an export from your updated project as a back-up and restore it in your archive. Strongly advised to name your files as the date of Updating (For example: 22092022.xer )
8. Compare your project with its baseline, analyze and track delays and overbudgets and report them
9. Reschedule your updated project to set uncompleted activities start from DD and they will move ahead to start from DD based on their Predecessors and successors accordingly.
10. Provide required action plans or look ahead plans for departments and persons