P3 Vs P3e various options of Percentage Complete

Henk



In you private message it didnot contain any email reply to,

if you send me your address I can forward the file to you as a reference



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Alex

Interesting topic i guess.



One very important tip:

Define costs at your activity you need to do this even if you only want to use manhours. I usualy make resources costs 1 Euro / Hour. Then hours and costs are equal. P3e needs costs to calculate % complete on each level.

(aswell in the current as in the baseline).

Tip 2: check if costs at completion is what you expected. when you dont want variance make a global change that set at completion equals to budget so your % complete is calculated as you expected

Tip 3: If you dont use actuals make actuals equal to (activity % complete x budget) by using a global change.



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Henk

Alex,



Thanx for the ppt & .xer on %complete it’s very useful.





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Vamsi

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I did not include any layout setting in the xer file but if you display the following columns - Duration %, Performance %,and Unit Percentage, Budget, Actual, Remaining duration, and OD. It should explain how P3e is calculate performance % base on EV and how EV is added to get CPI and SPI base on unit and cost.





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Alex

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Alex

Hi



To double confirm your query.



P3e do have the % complete on Performance, Unit and Duration, if you display either of these column it will use it % complete rule on all of the activity under its summary level.



As I stated in order to summarize a mixture of % complete type the only path is to use Earn Value as the common measurement unit.



Regardless the activity % complete type P3e will calculate its Earn Value. By Summarize the earn value you can measure either by unit or cost its % complete.



If you are still unsure how P3e can accurate calculate a % from mixture of activities. I can send you a sample xer



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Alex

Hi Alex,

I understand that performance %Complete is assoiciated with EV (As EV = BAC x Performance%Complete) and there are various methods to calculate perfromance% complete.But I am not sure how other %completes are associated with EV.



I would Like to go thru’ that presentation of urs



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Vamsi

Hi



In P3e % complete is assoicated with EV



To sum all different % complete type, P3e uses Earned Value in each activity.



TO make summary work properly some conditions are nessary to work.



I had a presentation that show exactly how this work. Send me a PM I will forward the powerpoint presentation to you.



In summary it is better to use CPI and SPI for % complete summary. And it is difficult to mix duration, unit, cost & performance % @ the end of the day it is better to use a common unit - EV





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Alex

Hi,

Select PHYSICAL when U want to enter Activity % Complete manually based on the physical progress.



Select DURATION when U want to enter Activity % Complete based on OD & RD. In this Case Activity%Complete =(OD-RD)/OD



Select UNITS when U want to enter Activity % Complete based on Resource Units. In this Case Activity%Complete =(Actual Labor & Nonlabor Units)/(Actual Labor & Nonlabor Units +Rem. Labor & Nonlabor Units)





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Vamsi