Dear All,
I am currently monitoring a schedule which is having budgeted expense cost assigned to engineering, procurement and construction phases. The performance percent is achieved by Activity % complete x weight (budgeted expense cost). The accural type for engineering and procurement activities is 'end of activity' while that for construction activities is "uniform over activity duration" so that start variance for constrction activites can be noticed easily. The %complete type is physical % complete. Now the problem...
The schedule is updated and when i make current schedule baseline of itself and assign it then current performance % complete and schedule % complete for engineering and procurement are equal. This makes sense since the accural type is end of activity. But for construction the performance % is not equal to schedule %. The schedule % is greater than performance % as it is being calculated on the basis of actual duration / BL duration * 100. For eg. if phyical % of an activity is 2% the schedule % is showing 66%, since activity started long back. Now to have forecast progress figures, the construction does not show correct figures as it starts calculating from 66% to the future data date.
Is there any way to do this in a better way to have correct forecast values for construction?
Please help..
Rao,
If your intention only is to show your physical % complete equal to Schedule % complete, adjust your original duration by dividing your actual duration to physical%complete. But take note: this is not a good practice as you are manipulating your distribution of BCWS. Another option is that during the planning stage and you already visualized in the future that your activity is not continous work then create a unique resource loading curve (which is not linear) modified according to your forecast achievements.
Ciao,
Jash
Rao
I assume you are a beginner with P6.
It's essential to learn the different ways of calculation for the different types of %-complete.
- Shortest: The "Hint Help"; activate under view --> create a layout with the different types of %-complete --> move the mouse onto the columns --> a window will be displayed with the formula and the way of summarization.
- Other: Check the P6 user manual with very detailed information as well.
Then you can select the appropriate %-complete.
Good luck!
Dieter