Adjust Planned and Assigned Hours Based on Actual Work

Project managers can assign hours for specific individuals assigned to the task. Often, managers will compare the number of hours that have been assigned against the number of hours worked thus far. As work is being done on the task, it is beneficial for managers to run accurate forecasting reports based on actuals.

For forecasting, it is ideal to have past planned and assigned hours updated to equal the approved hours. By default, updating the planned and assigned hours must be done manually manual process. When this feature is enabled, SuiteProjects Pro can streamline the process for updating planned and assigned hours based on actual worked hours on a per-task and per-user basis. Planned and assigned hours in the past are adjusted to equal approved hours and future planned and assigned hours can be recast.

There are three ways to recast future task assignment hours:

1. Adjust end date of the task or tasks, keeping current users' allocation. In this case:

   • Percent of user's time will not be changed.

   • End date will be moved so that future planned hours equals remaining unworked hours.

2. Keep end date of tasks, adjusting users' allocation. In this case:

   • End date will be preserved.

   • User allocation will be adjusted so that future planned hours equals remaining unworked hours.

3. Task is finished. Remove remaining planned hours.

To enable this feature, contact SuiteProjects Pro Support.