then how am I supposed to track the estimate verus the actual. every time I change the actual data the estimate changes to match the actual.

I am not sure if I am wording my process correctly or not.

I have a estimated start, stop and hours for a task. this is set for every task that I enter. I will get tasks every day that I will want to enter into the project so that I can track it.

I then want to enter the actual start, stop and hours for the task. I want to see in the gant the estmate data against the actual data to see how the actual did against the estimate.

I was using excel for this.

these tasks are really development tickets that we are assigning to developers. we want to be able to track the estimate versus actual for each ticket that is assigned to the developer. we would being using this also for resource tracking to see who has tickets open and when they would freeing up for future assignment for new tickets.