To successfully complete a project, you must accurately track the projects schedule and budget. Accurate schedule and budget information lets you detect variances early and make informed adjustments as needed.
MPM provides a suite of Integrated Planning views that you use to track projects. You can establish a baseline for a project, maintain up-to-date estimates on the costs to complete the project, and set milestones to directly measure performance.
There are three Integrated Planning views:
Baseline (BCWS) — You use the Baseline view to create and maintain the initial project plan.
Estimate to Complete (ETC) — You use the ETC view to calculate the estimated costs to complete a project. MPM can automatically generate the initial ETC as you create the Baseline. You can then edit the ETC data as required to reflect changes in the project.
Milestones — You use the Milestones view to create, monitor, and measure performance for a WBS element. It presents the data in tables as well as in a Gantt chart.
Accessing the Integrated Planning Views