General Tab of the Project View
Use this tab to view or modify general information for a control account or work package.
Contents
Field | Description |
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Status | This field displays the status of the selected control account or work package. The status changes depending on the dates that you enter in the
Dates group box.
The status of the control account depends on the status of its work packages. If all work packages under the control account have a status of Completed, the control account's status automatically changes to Completed, using the actual finish date of the latest work package. The status of the work package depends on the status of its milestones or steps. If all milestones or steps under the work package have a status of Completed, the work package's status automatically changes to Completed, using the actual finish date of the latest milestone or step. Deleting an actual finish date automatically changes the status of the control account or work package back to In-progress. Deleting an actual start date automatically changes the status of the control account/work package from In-progress to Planned. |
Description | This field displays a description of the selected control account or work package. |
Dates | Use this group box to modify project dates. You can also modify these dates in the Spreadsheet pane. All dates must be within the calendar used for the project.
If you adjust any of the start or finish dates of the selected budget or forecast resource assignment, and the new dates extend or shorten the time-phase periods of that resource assignment, the Spread Curve column in the Spreadsheet pane changes to Manual. |
Progress Technique | The progress technique determines how earned value is calculated. Select the progress technique for the work package. Depending on the progress technique selected, additional information may be required. |
% Completed | This field is available only if you select the
% Complete or
% Complete Manual Entry progress technique.
Use this field to enter a percent complete manually for each status period. The value entered means that at the current status date of the project, this percentage of work is completed for the work package. For example, if you entered 20 in this field, 20% of the work package has been earned. The % Complete Manual Entry progress technique works the same way as the % Completed progress technique except that Cobra does not update work packages using the % Complete Manual Entry method when the status is loaded from the schedule. |
Apportioned to | This field is available only if you selected the
Apportioned progress technique.
Use this field to select a work package to which the budget for the referenced work package will be apportioned. Click to display the Work Package Lookup dialog box, where you can select a work package. Cobra first calculates the percentage of the referenced work package that is already complete and applies that percentage when calculating the earned value for the apportioned work package. |
Resource Assignments | This button is available only if you selected the
Assignment % Complete progress technique.
Use this button to display the Resource Assignment Percent Complete dialog box, where you can enter the percent complete value for each resource assignment individually. |
Units to do/Units complete | These fields are available only if you selected the Units Complete progress technique. Use the Units to do field to enter the number of units that remain to be completed. Cobra calculates the earned value as the work package budget multiplied by the number of tasks completed and divided by the value in the Units to do field. Use this method when the work package contains a predefined number of similar tasks. |
Opening % |
This field is available only if you selected the User Defined progress technique. Use this field to enter an opening percentage to be marked as earned when the work package opens. The rest is earned when the work package is completed. Use this method only if the work package spans a maximum of two fiscal periods. |
- Related Topics:
- Secure Baseline Dates
There is a security option in Cobra that allows certain roles to prevent them from changing the time-phased spread values for ceratin budget classes. - Resource Assignment Percent Complete Dialog Box
Use the Resource Assignment Percent Complete dialog box to enter the percent complete value for each resource assignment individually.