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  • 1.  ACWP Calculations - pre-requisites

    Posted Mar 28, 2015 03:26 PM

    Hi All,

     

    We use limited features of financial module in Clarity.

    We have entities, locations and a rate matrix defined.

     

    We submit timesheets in Clarity. And we hope to see ACWP in task assignments to reflect proper values once we run Post Timesheets job.

    Could you please guide me on what other settings/fields need to be considered for this to happen?

     

    - Should I fill in Location details for the Project?

    - Should Resource Financial Properties be filled?

    - Should Earned Value periods be defined?

    - % Complete calculation method for now is Manual. Would this matter?

    - As of Date field is blank. Is this ok?

    - Are there other things to be set up?

     

    Any input would greatly help.

     

     

    Thanks,

    Shruthi



  • 2.  Re: ACWP Calculations - pre-requisites



  • 3.  Re: ACWP Calculations - pre-requisites

    Posted Mar 30, 2015 03:42 AM

    - % Complete calculation method for now is Manual. Would this matter?

     

    Check this -

     

    CA PPM Tuesday Tip: How do the three % Complete Calculation Methods Work

    https://communities.ca.com/message/241737316#241737316

     

    NJ



  • 4.  Re: ACWP Calculations - pre-requisites

    Posted Mar 30, 2015 03:43 AM

    The way the % Complete field is calculated depends on the % Complete Calculation Method selected for that project.

     

    Here’s a short description of the three methods:

     

    1. Manual: If this option is selected, the value in the % Complete fields are manually entered at all levels in the task breakdown structure. Entering a % Complete value for a task does not affect any other tasks in the hierarchy. Similarly, the project level % Complete field will also need to be entered manually as it will not be impacted by making any updates to the project tasks.

     

    2. Duration: This method measures the passage of time. If this option is selected, you can manually enter percent complete at the detail task level. However, the summary task and project level percent complete will be read only and will calculate based on the percentage of completed duration of all the detail tasks.

     

    % Complete = Completed Duration / Total Duration

     

    Here is a short example of this one:

    A summary task S1 includes detail tasks T1 and T2. The PM manually updates T1 as 10% complete and T2 as 25% complete. Assuming the total duration for T1 is 64 days, at 10% complete, the task is 6.4 days complete. Assuming the total duration for task T2 is 129 days, at 25% complete, this second task is 32.25 days complete.

     

    Using the equation above, the summary task is automatically updated to equal the Completed Detail Task Duration / Total Detail Task Duration.

    (6.4 days +32.25 days)/193 days =20%

     

    3. Effort: This method will calculate the percent complete for all tasks. The % Complete on all summary and detail tasks will be read only. When using this method, only work done by labor resources is considered. (All non labor actuals and ETC will be ignored.)

    The percent complete will be calculated based on the following formula:

     

    % Complete = Labor Actuals/( Labor Estimates + Labor Actuals)

     

    Where labor actuals is the sum of all actuals posted for labor resources, and labor estimates is the sum of all ETC for these resources.

    Percent complete for a summary task is calculated by aggregating the labor resource actuals on the child tasks and dividing it by the sum of the labor resource total effort on all the child tasks.

    Percent complete for a detail tasks is calculated by aggregating total labor resource actuals on the task assignments and dividing it by the total effort of all assigned labor resources.

     

    The % Complete calculation at the summary task or project level (for projects using the Effort or Duration calculation methods) can be triggered by some actions such as posting timesheets or autoscheduling the project. Additionally, there is also the ‘Update % Complete’ job that will update the summary and project level % Complete values on these projects. This job can be scheduled to run as often as every 10 minutes.

     

    NJ



  • 5.  Re: ACWP Calculations - pre-requisites

    Posted Mar 30, 2015 03:50 AM

    - Should Resource Financial Properties be filled?

    Yes

     

    - Should Earned Value periods be defined?

    Yes

     

    - As of Date field is blank. Is this ok?

    As Of Date defines the date to include data in time and budget estimates. This date is used in Earned Value Analysis (EVA) calculations, such as Budgeted Cost of Work Scheduled (BCWS) and drives the calculations for costs. ETC for a project is not scheduled on or before the As of Date.

     

    NJ



  • 6.  Re: ACWP Calculations - pre-requisites
    Best Answer

    Posted Apr 02, 2015 06:06 AM

    Thanks everyone for all the inforrmation. It works fine now.

     

    Resource Financial Properties were not required to be enabled.

    As of Date was untouched; % Complete was set to manual; Earned value periods were not defined.


    We only enabled the Project financial properties with proper Department and Location OBS and Financial Status = Open.

    We ensured that the resource allocation to the projects was with proper start and end dates before running the Rate Matrix Extraction job.

     

    The job may show as "Completed" on UI but it does take considerable time [3 hours min] to reflect proper cost rates in DB table.

     

    If these things are taken care of, ACWP reflects properly on Task assignment level after Post Timesheets job.