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Does anybody out there track actual time worked to compare to planned time for a task? If so - how?
I generally have my durations populating my projected start and projected finish dates. I then have my people manually enter the actual start and actual finish dates. For immediate tracking I use RYGG balls in an At Risk Column coupled with a Status column for not started, in progress, or complete. I then use a nested if statement in the RYGG column to base criteria off of the status, projected start, actual start, projected finish, and actual finish. If I notice that projects are consistently behind or ahead of schedule, I will use some basic formulas to find the differences between actual and projected and adjust my template accordingly.
We do not track hours because of irregularities that we've seen when dealing with time in Smartsheets. Server time seems to vary from local time and reporting on these hours is tedious and difficult.
I don't track hours either. The way we work is multiple projects at the same time, so trying to track to that level of detail is almost impossible when jumping back and forth from project to project. I only track days.
I’m building a PM Team Workload Dashboard from our project tracker and want to account for the effort each project requires, beyond simply counting active projects. How have you set up workload weighting in Smartsheet? Do you base it on project phase, complexity, estimated hours, or a combination? I’d appreciate examples…
This is probably really simple but I'm not sure how to get started. There's always a lot of crossover between the two & in the past I've re-typed stuff into an Excel spreadsheet. I'm sure there's a way to feed stuff from the project plan sheet to a RAID log sheet but I'm not sure how to go about it. My first thought was to…
We got a dashboard already built. I am new to Smartsheet and haven't worked on Smartsheet dashboards before. I don't know how to make changes or where to begin with. Can someone help me with this?
