Re: BCWP and BCWS

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Hi Anna,

Yes, I do mean a standard rate. If you use fixed costs as Andrew
suggests it should also work. Assign the fixed costs, save a baseline
and it should populate BAC (baseline cost).

Julie

"Anna" <Anna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Julie,

Yes, Resources were loaded. What do you mean by standard rates? If
it's an
hourly rate that I need to include for a resource, then it's no good
because
all that is provided to me is a lump sum cost from the contractor
for that
task.

Thats why I assumed that I had to put the lump sum in the BAC field.



"JulieS" wrote:

Hello Anna,

Pardon me for bumping in. In order for Project to calculate BCWP
and
BCWS you need:

1) Resources with standard rates assigned to tasks to create work.
2) Saved a baseline.
3) Set a status date
4) Applied tracking information

As you don't say specifically that you've assigned resources, my
guess
is you haven't. Therefore no work scheduled, therefore no BCWP.
When
you save a baseline it will populate BAC for you - no need to enter
it
in manually.

See the help topic "Analyze project performance with earned value
analysis".

I hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie
Project MVP

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"Anna" <Anna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have Service Pack 1 installed. I tried Steps 1 and 2 and then I
went to
tables/more tables/earned value to check and see if the BCWP and
BCWS
calculated and it didn't. I know that I'm doing something wrong,
but
I don't
know what. Do I need to save another baseline in order for this
to
work?

Do you have any material that can walk me through the step by
step
process
of entering lump sum costs into a task and then being able to
generate an
Earned Value report by exporting to excel?

"Andrew Lavinsky" wrote:

Might be a couple of things:

1) Set the Status Date in Project > Project Information
2) Make sure that the task Earned Value calculation is set to %
Complete
(which is the default). I think that's Tools > Options >
Calculations, but
on existing tasks, you have to expose the field, which is Earned
Value Method
3) If you're using Project 2007, make sure that you have the
Service Pack
installed. There were apparently some issues w/ exporting EVMS
data before
that was released.

Probably the first one will work though.

-A

"Anna" wrote:

I saved a baseline and I entered my planned cost in BAC field
and
enetered %
complete and the BCWP field still shows 0 value. What am I
doing
wrong?





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