Earned value over time report

[Gilad LSH]

Hi,

I try to produce an earned value report over time in MP 2007. My tasks have
fixed cost (this work is done for me by contractors). I saved a baseline and
the earned value details updates regulary in the earned value table. When I
produce a visual report it seem that the PV,EV,AC data over time is zeroe
which of course is not the case. From some reason, the data was not transferd
tot he report.
Do you know what I am doing wrong?

Regards,

Gilad

 

[Russ]

I have the same issue. Someone smart please respond! Thanks!

 

[Andrew Lavinsky]

1) Do you have the Status Date set appropriately in Project > Project Information?
2) Do you have SP1 installed on MS Project 2007?

Changing the Status Date allowed me to export EV and PV, but AC remained
at 0.
I installed the Service Pack (which I had been meaning to do anyway), and
AC exported properly.

 

[Russ]

I will check for SP1 and try again.

It seems that the issue is only with fixed costs; are you aware of any
issues particular to fixed costs?

I've seen a number of posts mention status date. Why so much attention?
Can't you update the project based on any status date you want?

Thanks,
Russ

 

[Andrew]

I am not personally aware of any issue w/ Fixed Costs. I just played around
w/ my installation, and didn't have a problem exporting fixed costs. Check
on the SP1 issue.

As far as the Status Date (SD) is concerned, it's pretty critical for EVM
reporting. The idea there is that a lot of the EV data is cumulative. Take
SPI for example, which is calculated as EV/PV. If we are two months into a
four month project, and I set my status date as Start + 2mon, then my SPI may
be something like .9. If we are two months into a four month project, and I
set my status date to Start + 4mon, then my SPI would end up at .5.

The Status Date is you telling Microsoft Project at what point the project
has been updated - i.e. when was the last time your data on the project was
complete.

Another example. Your resources report to you each Friday how they did the
week prior. You update the project on Monday morning, and set the SD to the
previous Friday. Come Thursday, if anyone looks at your project, it will
appear to be approx. 1 week behind schedule - not because you are behind
schedule, but just because you haven't updated the schedule, and won't until
the following Monday.

This becomes much more key in EV reporting, as it's time-phased data.

-A