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Time-Phased Reporting View Overview

Open Plan includes time-phased schedule progress charts that you can use to report by activity count or values.

You can use these charts to view, for example, early/late activity completion curves with actuals as well as time-phased task completions versus baseline plan.

Open Plan includes the following time-phased sample views:

  • TP Completions to report by activity count. Activity counts are charts based on aggregating counts of activities on various dates. For example, the number of activities planned to finish by Baseline Finish date versus the Actual Finish date.
  • TP Cash Flow to report by activity value. A value chart is the aggregated value of a specified field over a date range.

You can use the Time-Phased View Options dialog box to specify options, counts, and values.

TP Completions: Reporting by Activity Count

The chart displays cumulative (s-curve) or period (histogram) data for a project plotted against time and is used to track the progress of a project. The data in the charts can count activities over time based on any date fields.

You can view the number of activities that are planned to finish (Baseline) versus the activities that were scheduled to finish (Actual/Early/Late Finish) within a certain date period.

In the example below, there are 21 activities in January planned for completion (Baseline Finish Cum); however, only 10 were completed (Actual Finish Cum). The early and late lines represent the range of possibilities that the project can expect if it is to be completed on time.

Having the ability to see these trends allows you to mitigate early on in the project cycle.

By default this chart filters out summary activities. You can use activity filters to include or exclude activities to report on.

This reporting also supports the concept of Earned Schedule reporting. The count of baseline finish dates represents the BCWS Schedule and the actual finish dates represent the BCWP values.

TP Cash Flow: Reporting by Activity Value

Use this chart to view, for example, the budget at complete spread between the early start and early finish. In addition, you can use user-defined values. You might want to use it to look at cash flow– what you are planning to spend versus what you actually spent - at the WBS level or the total project level. You could use a user-defined field to view the monthly and cumulative values.