Hello,
I am working on a project that will have multiple bid packages awarded over a 2 year period, so the schedule will grow as each bid package is awarded. The owner wants us to use earned value management. My plan is to create a high level schedule with all the milestones and then to create a schedule for each bid package. The schedules will be linked to the other schedules as needed. From my research and experimenting in P6, it looks like the earned value curves on the activity usage profile will sum data from multiple schedules if I have multiple schedules open at the same time. I think I will be able to report project wide earned value metrics even though the project is broken into multiple schedules. Just to be clear, when I say project wide, I mean earned value metrics for all bid packages, as opposed to just 1 bid package. My goal is to be able to see the performance of the entire project, which is made up of multiple bid packages, instead of the performance of just 1 bid package.
Can I generate project wide earned value metrics from multiple schedules?
Is there a better way you would recommend I set up the schedules instead of a schedule for each bid package?
Thank you.