We create our project plans at the start of a project and assign all our resources and hours. Since we bill for our time being able to to track planned vs actual on hours is important. That said often times our task dates adjust throughout the project due to client impacts. When I extend a task I add more hours for my resources to complete the work based on that extension. When I make those edits though all fo the careful resourcing I did for that task is reset.
For example:
Task is set for two weeks and 8 hours. In week one I have 2 hours scheduled and in week two I have 6 hours schedule. There has been a project impact and now that task needs to extend into a third week and add 4 more hours. Now this task is 12 hours in three weeks. When I add that new time and hours the hours I scheduled for each week is reset.
Does anyone run into this? This is causing my planned vs actual to constantly be thrown off and causing rework for my project managers. Would love to hear how anyone else handles this.
Thanks!
