Hi,
in my last post I wrote about differences between Move and Update options in MS PROJECT 2016 on the Project Level, Now it is time to explain those two different options on the Task level.
First, I will create simple Project:
As you can see, I make Task 1, as 50% completed.
Now suppose that for some reason I have to move Task 2 for 5 days (let’s say that we are building the wall, and we fins out that brick are not going to be available as we planned, but 5 days latter, so I have to move Task 2 5 days in the future:
and:
and I will get:
As you can see, Task 2 has a new Starting date, and constraint: “Start No Earlier Than”.
Now look again at the first picture in this post. And let’s say that today is Friday, 13.01.2017., and the only work done is those 50% for Task 1. And again, If you are not the Magician, you will not be able to complete the work in the Past. So, you must update the Schedule to reflect real situation. First of all you should set status date as I will (in my example, Friday 13.01.2017):
Finally, I will Update my Tasks:
and I will get:
So, Move Option is to push Task back and forth from some reasons, and Update Option is for align selected Task with actual Schedule, e.g. to align finished and unfinished Tasks, and their parts to the real life situation (e.g. Status Date). Basically you can get, more or less, the same result with both Options, but my advice is always: Use features for what they are planned for.
Regards!
Nenad Trajkovski 