Updating the schedule with Expected finish

Dear Carmen

I didn’t realize those surprises up to now.

In using "Expected Finish" those items I found to be regarded:
1. Scheduling options: Must be switched on
2. If EF hits a date which is "nonwork" in your calendar, it will be transferred to the next working day.
3. Early or Actual Start > Expected Finish: EF will be ignored.

Maybe you’ll explain more in detail those inconsistencies.

Regards from Germany

Dieter

Dear Dieter,

Thanks for your quick answer. It came just on time.

Regarding Schedule options, I have set up them as follow:

1)Tab GENERAL : ON: Use expected finish
2)When scheduling progressed activities use : Progress override
3)Start to start lag from : early START

Apparently is doing OK.

Let me finish with my update and issue today and I would like to share with you, when to use expected finish as part of updating method.

Have a nice day,
Ciao, Carmen

Dieter,

Having time to search what has been written regarding “Expected finish”, I realized about two different things;

Expected finish as part of constraints: In P6.2 we have Finish On (3 types) or mandatory finish

Expected finis as part of Status.

For the latter, the schedule option needs to be modified to the following: Use expected finish and progress override.

I would recommend expected finish as part of status ONLY for procurement activities such as “ fab/delibery”. This activity normally has a duration of more than one reported period.

By doing this, I need to change the schedule option.

It seems that I will have a schedule with two schedules options. One portion with RDU and only the procurement activities with expected finish.

Conclusion: Better to update with actual dates and remaining durations.

Cheers,

Carmen

Expected finish is a constraint as it was in P3. In my opinion it’s independent from retained logic or progress override if EF is taken into account. It just depends on the parameter "Use...".
If you’ll update with expected finish, another item might be dangereous if you use activities longer than two periods. You might forget it, but P6 doesn’t. Just display it in a column and check or by filter (exp f not equal to "").
For many people it’s easier to say I’ll finish the... than I’ll need this many days - for my experience.

Regards
Dieter

Hello Dieter and Carmen,

I am using Expected Finish dates.
As Dieter said, you can easily filter on activities with EF in the past (I use : "EF is less than Data Date").

When you use EF, be careful not using FF relationships. In that case, it doesn’t work very well (if you are not logical and you have conflictual dates). In some cases, EF is then ignored.

Kindest regards.
Patricia