Guys,

I’m currently using P5, and I just wanted to share a little lesson I learned myself in using P5 regarding a report that our project required. With this, I am also hoping that I could get comment(s) or correction(s) from anybody if what I did is the right or best practice...

Case:
I’ve been doing a weekly summary bar chart report (P5) containing BL & remaining bars and at the bottom is the Activity Usage Profile based on cost or value showing the histograms of actual, bl & estimated plus the s-curve.

Problem:
My big boss required an additional report using exactly the same format but containing the % accomplishments instead of the values (y axis 0% to 100%).

Solution:
Step 1. I created a copy of the programme for both baseline and working;
Step 2. Using global change: budget cost/total budget * 100;
Step 3. Store performance period performance because it created negative this period values;
Step 4. Change the currency symbol to %.

The above did worked for me although I had a hard time debugging the curve at the start ’coz it won’t reach 100%, only 96%. Later I found out that several activities zero out durations after the global change.

Penalty:
Although it generated the report, but the penalty is that I’ll be updating both files each week (just a 2,500 activity contract programme).


Again,any best practice comment(s) or correction(s) to what i did would be highly appreciated.


Many thanks in advance...

Regards,

Arman