Graphic Drill Down (GDD) is a management tool that provides the ability to graphically display and explore data created in MPM. GDD provides a wide range of 2-D and 3-D charts, graphs, and grids. You can graph schedule, cost, actuals, variances, and condition the data in many powerful ways, to represent and analyze the data in your project.
By displaying your project's data as a graph, you can drill down (display additional detail information) into the data by clicking on a portion of a graph. For example, you can view a Horizontal Bar Graph that displays Timeframe cumulative BCWS in Total Dollars, then click on a bar representing a specific month to view a breakdown of cumulative BCWS data through that fiscal month. You can continue to drill down into a time period and into a WBS leg.
You can drill down by WBS, Element of Cost, or Resource. You can also choose to display any or all of the following types of data:
Budgeted Cost of Work Scheduled (BCWS)
Budgeted Cost of Work Performed (BCWP)
Actual Cost of Work Performed (ACWP)
Estimate to Complete (ETC)
Latest Revised Estimate (LRE)
Schedule Variance
Cost Variance
Other Variance
Graphic Drill Down is described in Analyzing the Project Graphically (GDD).