Goal:  How to De-Progress a Project

Symptom:  I have started a group of activities that should not have been started and I would like to return the progress to 0 %, return the original duration and keep the original budgeted labor units.

The Fix:  Perform the following steps:

1.                   Choose Enterprise, Projects and select the Calculations from the details at the bottom.

2.                   Choose to "Link Budget and At Completion for not started activities" and "Reset Remaining Duration and Units to Original

                  

 

3.                Choose Format, Columns and add the columns for Actual Labor Units, Actual Nonlabor Units.

                   

4.                   Choose Tools, Schedule and set the data date equal to the Project Start Date and schedule. To find the Project Start date, choose Enterprise, Projects. Click on the Dates tab and note the Planned Start date.

                      

5.                   For the first activity in the list, set the Actual Labor Units to 0. Highlight the activities in this column and choose Edit, Fill Down.

6.                   For the first activity in the list, set the Actual Nonlabor Units to 0. Highlight the activities in this column and choose Edit, Fill Down.

7.                   Choose Tools, Global Change and run the 1st Global Change. (See below)  This will set the Actual Material Units to zero.

8.                   Run the 2nd global change (See below) which sets the activity status to Not Started.

 

1st Global Change:

Subject Area:    

Activity Resource Assignments

Then:   

Actual Material Units = 0

 

                   

2nd Global Change:

Subject Area:    

Activities

If:           

Where Activity Status is not equal to Not Started

Then:

Activity Status equals Not Started

If this process is not used you may encounter the following error:

"Cannot set status to Not Started if activity has actuals."