Updating Activity Progress Overview

To determine how a project is performing and what work remains to be done, updates on its progress should be regularly communicated by project team members. Using the My Activities feature, team members can provide status updates on the progress of activities to which they have been assigned.

When you assign an activity to a user, the activity appears on the My Activities page. From the page, users can mark activities as started or completed, and update other details to provide the current status of the activity.

The project manager can configure which fields are available on the My Activities page to be updated by team members. Updates to an activity's status can be viewed by the project manager from the Activities page.

You can assign activities to users for progress updates in three ways:

Activity owners are users tasked with the responsibility of updating the status and other details for project activities. Activity owners are typically used when resource assignments are not used for reporting status on activities or when one person is responsible for reporting for a team.

You can also use resource assignments to designate project team members as responsible for updating the status of activities. Using resource assignments, you can assign more than one resource as responsible for an activity. When you assign an activity to multiple resources, the activity appears on the My Activities page for each assigned resource. From the list of assigned resources, you can designate a single person as the primary resource responsible for all status updates for the activity.

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