Is Retained Logic the best Scheduling Option in Primavera?

Primavera has three Scheduling Options to choose from when you are scheduling your project. Retained Logic is the default scheduling option. When you are building a Baseline, the default option works fine. But things change when you start updating your project, activities start getting delayed and do not get executed as planned.  You then have to make a decision on whether you want to continue using Retained logic or choose Progress Override or Actual Dates as your Scheduling Option. A lot has been discussed over the internet forums on which option is the best for a project and Retained Logic has won with an overwhelming majority. But I have a different opinion.

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From Amit Parmar em www.theprimaverablog.com

Using Physical and Duration Percent Complete Types In Primavera P6

If you are looking for a quick way to update the progress of work on your Primavera P6 schedule or you want to describe the progress of work that has a non-uniform production rate, then you should become familiar with the different Percent Complete Types offered in Oracle Primavera P6.

Here we will start with the situation where you already have a schedule and associated baseline. There is demand for accurate, weekly updates on your project and you need an efficient and accurate way of modeling activity progress. This is where the different Percent Complete Types in Primavera P6 come in rather handy.…

See the article on the Tensix Consulting blog site.

A useful exercise would be to take the example schedule used in this article and provide weekly updates to it, comparing your results to those in this article.