Project management Glossary of Terms - Remaining Work

Remaining Work – working time left to be performed by resources assigned to tasks.

Remaining Work occurs when a task is partially done. It is calculated from its total work and completion level as follows:

Remaining Work = Work - Actual Work

The same as for Actual Work, if a task has no work associated (most often no resources assigned), the Remaining Work value cannot be set to a value other than zero. In any other conditions, specifying a value for Remaining Work will set automatically a corresponding value for % work complete(and Actual Work) and vice versa.