Re: Planner-list Poll: how do you track progress?

[Sebastien Roy <Sebastien Roy Sun COM>]

Maurice van der Pot wrote:
> I've been working on a patch that allows you to track a task's progress
> in hours instead of in a percentage.
>
> Now I am wondering how you generally would like to track progress 
> (forgetting for a minute that planner only supports a percentage at the
> moment).
>
> So here are the options:
>
> 1) I prefer to always track progress in percentages
>
> 2) I prefer to always track progress in hours/days/etc
>
> 3) It depends on the project, but within one project I track everything
>    the same way
>
> 4) I use both within one project. Some tasks in percentages, some in
>    hours/days.
>
> 5) I only use this feature for marking tasks as complete

I strictly track progress in percentages, but what I'd really like is to 
be able to track progress against the original plan.  Knowing that a task 
that was scheduled to be done 6 months ago is 50% done is somewhat 
useful, but what I'd really need to know is that given that this task is 
50% done at this point in time, when can I expect it to be done, and how 
does this affect the overall schedule compared with the initial plan?

Today I do this by altering the duration of tasks and their start dates 
to reflect what is actually happening, but then I lose valuable data in 
the process (the initial plan).

-Seb