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Reconcile Milestone Weight Variance Dialog Box

Use this dialog box to address variances that are revealed when you run the Reconcile Milestone Weight utility.

When you run the Reconcile Milestone Weight utility, Cobra checks to see if the milestone weights represent the work package budget spread within the percentage weight variance defined on the General tab of the Application Preferences dialog box.

If the milestone weight varies from the work package budget spread more than the percentage defined, Cobra provides you with options for reconciling the variance:
  • Update the milestone weights manually.
  • Update the milestone weights programmatically.
  • Ignore the variance.
Attention: For more information on how milestone/step weights are calculated, see Milestones/Steps.

Contents

Field Description
Update milestones Select this option to manually update the milestone weights in the Milestones grid on the Milestones/Steps tab.
Reconcile milestones Select this option to instruct Cobra to calculate the weight of each milestone based on its associated budget.
Ignore Select this option to instruct Cobra to ignore the weight variance. Selecting this option creates artificial schedule variances.