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Metrics
I am trying to develop a way of tracking project and team metrics using the task data in Planner. Does anyone have recommendations for this? Here are a few of the issues:
- On the task screen, Planner seems to constantly mangle the Effort values making the data continuously suspect. As an example, I have a task that is 16 hours, 50% complete and it says 12.36 complete and 3.64 remaining. There are other issues like this, like having two people on a task, ...
- The "Charts" option does not provide a lot of functionality or any customization. Also, the data is often messed up, partially related to items like the one above.
- We are using level 5 and some of the plugins that look like they might work for us do not work with this level.
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Scheduling includes duration, effort and contouring.
50% complete is not half of the total effort but a midpoint between the start and finish date time of a task. It represents a point in time. From the information above it looks like the schedule has been contoured (weighted towards the end of the schedule).
It's worth doing a deep dive into the scheduling engine.
