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Resource Usage Profile Cummulative Curves

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Wed, 2009-04-22 18:37
Brian Yung
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Gentlemen,

I am currently re-baselining my schedule which contains activities (with resources assigned) that were completed in the past. While rebaselining, I put my data date to be "today" and when I resource load my past activities and future activities,the cummulative curves does not show what it should.

By that I mean that the budgeted cummulative curve shows that I have nothing budgeted for the "past" activities and then suddenly rises up at a later date to match the "actual units"

can someone help me fix this?

Thanks,

Brian
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Thu, 2009-04-23 01:42
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Arnold Puy
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Hi Brian,

The reason why your Budgeted Units (Budgeted Bars) moves it is because, some of the activities already in progress and completed. These activities use the budgeted values with planned dates.

It is also happened when at complete duration is greater than original duration. Try to notice, for those activities still not yet started. Budgeted Units equals to remaining early units.

With regards to your query on how to fix this, save a copy of your current schedule and assign this as your baseline then go to Admin  Admin Preferences  Earned Value Tab, under “Earned Value Calculation” select the “Budgeted values with current dates” then press (F9) or schedule your project.

The other workaround is to create global change, making that
“Planned Start/Finish” equal “Start/Finish” but you need to have the “if condition” that,

“Activity Status” is not equal “Not Started”
“Activity Type” equals “Task Dependent” (If you have milestone in your programme)

This is to avoid error message during running the global change.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Arnold
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Thu, 2009-04-23 01:37
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Michael Ridino
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I think I had the same problem on an past schedule. The resources get calculated using the planned start and finish, which can be different from the normal start and finish. Put in columns for planned start and finish as well as start as finish for the activities and see if they match.

If they are different, manually change the planned dates to match and hopefully your curve will be correct.

Mike
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