Future Period Planning: Updating Projects

Editing future periods on activities which are in progress or complete.

You can edit future period values for planned units on an assignment at any time (before or after the data date), even if the activity associated with the assignment is in progress or has an actual finish date.

For remaining early units, you can only edit values for future periods on an assignment that fall after the data date. You cannot edit remaining early units values for period before the data date when an activity is in progress, even if you entered the values before work began on the activity. Once an activity has an actual finish date, you can not edit remaining unit values.

Note: When work on an activity is not proceeding according to plan, you can reestimate the remaining work on the assignment and update the remaining units on the assignment without changing the original plan. This allows you to compare the original baseline plan with the work that actually occurred. If the project schedule has deviated significantly from the original plan and several activities need to be re-estimated, you can update the planned units for those assignments and make another baseline for the project, or update the existing baseline.

Using Apply Actuals for assignments with manual future period values.

P6 will consider the data you entered in future periods when applying actuals if Auto Compute Actuals is selected on the activity or for the resource assigned to the activity.

Updating progress for assignments with edited future period values.

Actuals are applied to edited values for future periods on assignments depending on the way you update activity progress.

If you update activity progress by modifying the remaining units or remaining early finish on the assignment, the actual units for the activity are updated using the budgeted unit distribution you specified when you apply actuals, if the project option Recalculate actual units and cost when Duration % Complete changes is selected.

If you update activity progress by modifying the actual units on the activity or assignment, edited future period budgeted and remaining unit values are not updated when you apply actuals.

Removing progress from an activity with edited future period values.

When you remove progress from an activity that has edited future period values on an associated assignment, P6 adheres to the setting for removing progress from activities in the preferences for the project.

If Reset planned duration and units to remaining is selected the edited future period planned unit values for the assignment are respread to match the remaining unit values.

If Reset remaining duration and units to planned is selected the edited future period remaining unit values for the assignment are respread to match the planned unit values.

Earned value.

P6 will consider the data you entered in future periods when calculating earned value.

Editing future periods on activities which are in progress or complete.

Using Apply Actuals for assignments with manual future period values.

Updating progress for assignments with edited future period values.

Removing progress from an activity with edited future period values.

Earned value.

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