Even the most carefully planned project will require changes throughout its life span. MPM provides several utilities that facilitate making changes to estimates across an entire project, or selected WBS elements and legs. The utilities are:
Reprice — Revises baseline, ETC, or actuals based on changes in burden templates and rate tables.
Estimate Adjust — Revises baseline estimates and ETC based on a fixed percentage or target value.
Estimate Rename — Renames resource codes or resource departments for estimates, and reprices.
Date Shift — Shifts the estimate start and complete dates, and reprices.
Calculate BCWP — Updates the BCWP figures.
Post Weekly Data — Provides means to calculate, store and report earned value on a weekly basis.
Project Replan — Formally reprograms or replans a project.
Before using any of the utilities, you should request a full backup of the MPM database. If one of the utilities is interrupted in the middle of executing, the database will be corrupted. The only way to correct this is to restore the database from the backup.
You access the utilities from the Tools menu in the Project Maintenance window.