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ES & LS CURVE

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Sun, 2010-08-15 22:42
vex zex
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HYE ALL

How to make little bit different s-curve between early start and late start...

how to make good s-curve
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Wed, 2010-09-01 20:37
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Rafael Davila
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vex zex

You are posting on a P3 forum, as of today no software is capable of providing within the software the graphs as P3.

Within P3:
*You do not need to export to Excel for your S curves,
*with P3 you do not need to adjust late date constraints temporarily to go back again to initial status, *with P3 you can see projected early and late
*and if one baseline is not enough I believe you can display curves for the current job plus 2 baselines, but that is too much.

You got to be very happy, I sincerely do not understand why a P3 user would use Excel to create S curves when you can define as many combinations you want and then at a single click print all as a report group.

Believe me; I miss this old P3 functionality. Perhaps I got multiple vertical scrolling profiles tables and graphs, which I consider superior, but the basic S curves and the histograms reports of P3 have no parallel.

Best Regards,
Rafael
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Wed, 2010-09-01 19:48
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vex zex
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hye all frenzzz...

Thanks for the info...
I would like to gather more information how to make good s-curve for late start ;
Example manually adjust the latest dates constrain or zero float.

Please advise
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Mon, 2010-08-23 11:42
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Rafael Davila
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Shahul,your welcome, I did not know what a banana curve was, I did my web search and found about it. Learning never stops.
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Mon, 2010-08-23 10:09
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\\\\\\\\Thanks for the link-Rafael \\\\
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Mon, 2010-08-16 12:06
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Shah. HB
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Hi Zex

There is a major difference in Early and Late Curves ,you could visualize once they are generated

In Tools-->Graphical reports ,there is an option for generation of early and late curves
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Thu, 2010-08-19 16:03
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Rashid Iqbal
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I think you are looking for a banana curve...

1. Pull the data in a spread sheet for all the resources
2. One row for early start and the other for late start.
3. Convert the manhours into % completions and then prorate between these two to develop the banana curve.

Thanks.

R
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Sat, 2010-08-21 12:20
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Shah. HB
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Hi Iqbal

S curve is not banana curve .It doesn’t seems to be in s curve
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Sun, 2010-08-22 16:35
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Rafael Davila
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Banana Curve

http://cmaanet.org/files/pentagon.pdf

Unfortunately the above example misses that the projected/forecast is composed also of Projected Early and Projected Late.

P3 S Curve
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