Key takeaways

• Tracking methods are techniques to monitor and update the progress of a project against the original plan. They include recording actual and remaining dates, work hours, task progress, and so on.
• The status date is a fixed point in time that serves as a reference for comparing and measuring task progress. It is automatically set to today’s date. It can also be set manually to show a specific date in time, which helps with tracking your project up to this date.
• Tracking the project’s progress can be done in several ways. Progress can be updated by entering the percentage of completion, using the Update Task dialog box, entering Actual Start and Actual Finish dates, using several tables, and other ways.
• Use the Split Task button to reflect breaks or interruptions in work.
• Baseline data can be compared with the actual progress data to measure and analyze the performance of the project. There are several ways to view this data, using tables...