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p6v7 - help reporting progress against resources

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Mon, 2011-04-04 16:27
Gemma Clarke
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i have just moved from using p3 to p6v7, its pretty different and i'm really missing the way p3 would calculate in reports!  anyway, thats irrelevant now and I need to report daily progress against my schedule, based on resources. 

 

my schedule is set up so that the duration type is fixed unit per time and % complete type is physical.   is this the best set-up for me to calculate actual resource usage?  i am finding entering actual data quite time consuming at the end of every day as there are a lot of activities to update, but when i've tried using unit or duration % complete, the auto-calulations arent true to how the task is progressing.

 

Also, is there a report i can set up to let me know achieved man hours to date, and also during the last 24 hours?

 

thank you for your help!

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Mon, 2011-04-04 22:35
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Rafael Davila
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 is this the best set-up for me to calculate actual resource usage?

Actual resource usage can be half or even twice the budget amount therefore I would say in this way what you are calculating earned value but this is done by most software. EV compares actual against earned.

Actual resource usage is from time cards, equipment and labor included as both are resources. Actual resource usage can be discontinuous and your software shall allow for the record of as many interruptions happened in order for the data be credible in court if the schedule updates eventually are/might be used.

Actual resource usage represents the actual hours recorded by any Job Costing System, can be man hours or equipment hours. Costs associated to the usage is also kept on record.

I believe P6 follows P3 methodology for posting period performance.

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