Project Completion Date and Progress

Eugene / Anoon,



You said the right answers to this post.



It do need a lot of hard work.



Cheers,



Charlie

Moutaz,



don’t always believe in what you see, sometimes it’s just an optical illusion



i suggest that you go thru the details (what units they used in generating the s-curve), you need to do a lot of bean-counting, and check if it corresponds to the actual physical progress on site.



regards from Benghazi

moutaz,

s-curve is generated from resource/cost assigned to the activities, so its result is dependant on the progress of these activties.



project completion is calculated based purely on the activities/logic (or as u said, the critical path).



so both do not necessarily reports the same.



if you have high progress on heavily loaded (resource/cost) non-critical activties, and low progress on the activties on the critical path...

you will get an s-curve showing a positive report,

but still get a project delay.



cheers

Moutaz,



The S-curve show positive variance does not follow ahead of schedule.



The S-curve is dependent on how the matrix were distribution (cost, manhours, relative weight factor, etc.).



The over-all completion depends on the progress of critical activities since critical activities drive the completion of the project.



So it could still be possible that you may have positive S-curve but the overall completion may not shown as ahead. This is very seldom in occurence.





Cheers,



Charlie

Hi Moutaz,



not nescesarily.



include earned value analysis, SPI (schedule performance index), CPI (cost performance index) or update you P3 schedule and check if the finish date is ahead of the plan finish date



Cheers,



Charlie