ETC Overview

Estimate to Complete (ETC) is an estimate by the task assignee of the number of hours remaining to complete a task. ETC gives a project manager an accurate idea of the work remaining on a task.

ETC is initially set to the value of Planned Work for the given task and then dynamically decrements as task assignees enter hours worked against the task. A task assignee can edit the ETC, overwriting the calculated ETC with their estimate of the amount of work remaining before the task is complete.

How ETC is calculated:

ETC is calculated using this formula.

Note: The value for ETC is always the same on the task detail page and the timesheet.

tracking task progress using ETC or Percent Complete

Enterprise administrators configure their enterprise to use either ETC or Percent Complete (% Complete) to track task progress. (For details on how to set this, see Editing Timesheet Properties in the Administrator section of this Help.)

• If ETC is used to track task progress, Percent Complete is a read-only field that is calculated automatically.
  Note: Project managers and other users with permissions to edit tasks can still manually change Percent Complete when editing a task through Task Details pop-up.
  
• If Percent Complete is used to track task progress, ETC is hidden throughout PPM and Percent Complete is manually updated by task assignees as they do work on a task.

For more information, see About Task Percent Complete, Actual Start and Actual Finish.

Related Topics:

• About Percent Complete, Actual Start and Actual Finish—About task percent complete, actual start and actual finish.
• About Task Edit and Task Update—How editing a task differs from updating a task.
• Adding a Task—How to add a task from the global Tasks application or the Workspace Menu in a workspace.
• Adding Hours to Your Timesheet—How to add hours to a timesheet in the Changepoint Timesheets application.
• Updating a Task—How to update a task.

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