Administrative projects and earned value

J

Jørgen Strand

Hi,

In our project we are currently tracking earned value, but
project administration is not included in the earned value
calculation. This means that a project plan has some tasks
that are flagged as non value earning.

So in order to accomodate the wish of filtering out non-
value earning tasks in the MS Project Earned value
calculation, I was thinking of separating the
administrative Non-EV tasks into different administrative
projects. This way we could use the default MS Project EV
calculation in the plans that do earn value.

However, the administrative project tasks do have a budget
and needs to be outlined in time.

My question is really, is this the right approach? And can
we use the administrative projects to lay out tasks in
time? I do believe that the intention of administrative
projects is to include tasks that have no budget at all.

Or would it be better to include a field that says EV/NEV?
And what impact would this have on using the default MS
Project EV calculation?

Any thoughts are highly appreciated...

brgds,

Jørgen
 
K

Kevin Flanagan

I think it would be much easier for you to separate out
your Administrative tasks into their own projects. This
would also allow for easier reporting as to where the
money is being spent, i.e. maintenance, bug fixes, etc..

Kevin
 
L

Lars Hammarberg

Check out the latest downloads from MS site - they recently put an example
solution there that will enable you to pass task outline data as well as a
number of EV-related data into the OLAP cube.
If your admin tasks are tagged in such a field, you're home free, I'd guess
:)

--

/Lars Hammarberg
www.camako.se
MSProject Premier Partner


Hi,

In our project we are currently tracking earned value, but
project administration is not included in the earned value
calculation. This means that a project plan has some tasks
that are flagged as non value earning.

So in order to accomodate the wish of filtering out non-
value earning tasks in the MS Project Earned value
calculation, I was thinking of separating the
administrative Non-EV tasks into different administrative
projects. This way we could use the default MS Project EV
calculation in the plans that do earn value.

However, the administrative project tasks do have a budget
and needs to be outlined in time.

My question is really, is this the right approach? And can
we use the administrative projects to lay out tasks in
time? I do believe that the intention of administrative
projects is to include tasks that have no budget at all.

Or would it be better to include a field that says EV/NEV?
And what impact would this have on using the default MS
Project EV calculation?

Any thoughts are highly appreciated...

brgds,

Jørgen
 
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