You need to be careful of compare the report generator in P3 and the Layout view. They display a very different information. Especially if you have a different target plan.

Check BQ and QAC and check the accumulated value carefully.

If I understand correctly you wish to forecast the deliverables or output of your project.

A resource in scheduling software may be used to define may things and when you create your resources, you may also consider them within the context of the following headings:

1. Input Resources
These resources are required to complete the work and represent the project costs:
- Individual people by name.
- Groups of people by trade, discipline or skill.
- Individual equipment or machinery by name.
- Groups of equipment or machinery by type.
- Groups of resources such as Crews, Gangs or Teams made up of equipment and machinery.
- Materials.
- Money.

2. Output Resources
These could be the project deliverables or outcomes and could have a direct relationship to the project income:
- Specifications completed.
- Bricks laid.
- Tones of material loaded with an excavator.
- Lines of code written.
- Tests completed.
This type of resource is often used in the mining environment where the output in tones or volume is scheduled and/or leveled.

The analysis of and difference between the Input and the Output resources’ value and timing may be used to represent the Cash Flow, Cash Position and Project Profit (or loss).

The type of contract that the work is being conducted under would often determine if the client is more interested in the Input or Output Resources.

Therefore your need to decide what you wish to model in your schedule and define resource/s to provide the required output.

Paul E Harris
Eastwood Harris Pty Ltd
Planning and Scheduling Book Publishers
www.eh.com.au

You may produce a bar chart with the S-curve underneath by displaying the Resource Profile and selecting the appropiate setting for the Resource Profile and Printing.

ALthernatively the Graphical Reports function do have the facility to overlay an S-Curve on a Bar Chart. There is an example of this on Page 16 of the my Technical Paper - Pactical Appliaction of Earned Value Performance Measurement Using P3 on my web site.

You wll need to create the resource curve report and then create the bar report and there is an option on the Content of the bar report form to select an S-Curve that is overlaid on the bar report.

The output is not too flash and to obtain the earned, actual and planned you will need three schedules one resresenting each curve.

Paul E Harris
Eastwood Harris Pty Ltd
Planning and Scheduling Book Publishers
www.eh.com.au

This is how to do it:
Go to the FF Menu
1- View >>> Resource Profile ... Select option
2- Page Set up >>> Tick Resource cost overlay