BCWP <> BCWS w/ Project Status @ 100%

[Joe Martocci]

A customer of mine has asked me to graph when we can expect our project to
catch up with the baseline. I've adjusted some durations and task
relationships on how we plan to catch up. I then set the "Status Date" to
the end project date and set all tasks to 100%. My thinking is that if we
complete all the tasks based on the new schedule, I should see BCWP catch up
to BCWS. However, when I do this and export the values to Excel, the time
phased BCWP doesn't equal the BCWS. I thought when all the tasks were
complete, the BCWP would equal the BCWS? What's going on?

Thanks,

 

[EProject]

BCWP won't equal to BCWS unless the project is perfectly executed.

BCWP won't calculate unless actual work is entered, so I don't hink you can
use the status date to estimate what your BCWP will be in the future. You
might be able to trend it out using CPI or historic BCWP, but in my limited
experience I dont' think it would be accurate.

What I do is graph out an ETC using Remaining Work (you have to cum. the
cost field in Excel). I show the ACWP, BCWS, BCWP and then the ETC line will
take off where the ACWP ends.

 

[Joe Martocci]

Thanks for the response. However, the BCWP will equal the BCWS when each
task finishes whether it's executed perfectly or not. This is also true at
the project level as well, it's BCWS & BCWP should be equal at project
completion. What I am trying to show is where the project "gets back on
schedule" . When will the BCWP catch up to the BCWS and the delay's overcome
if at all. The answer may not be until 3 months after the project was
supposed to complete. The ETC calculation will show only the financial side
but doesn't really address the schedule issue I'm looking at answering. I
did some further investigation and the problem seems to be with my fixed cost
and not my labor $$ totaling up correctly. In the time-phased view of BCWS
vs BCWP, the tasks which have fixed costs on them, the fixed cost amounts are
not being accumulated correctly when the task is completed.