OK. From some emails and some posts from Hal Im thinking that the PPC macros are not done yet. :-)
The macros I posted earlier used the Task Baseline Finish date as the "Promise" date for PPC calculation. However, the "promise" can be revisted on a day to day basis and this revision would likely NOT result in the resaving of the baseline. I think we might want to use an Interim Plan (Project has 10 of them that stores a snapshot of Start and Finish dates at a point in time). This interim plan change be saved and resaved without having to resave the entire baseline. I also think that based on this rapidly changing nature means that the use of the Status Date to use as a threshold might not be as important.
So I will be updating the macros this week and posting them again. (Yes again!) :-)
NOW I see the difference with EVM and the value behind PPC. I think this metric is great for software development or any "production-type" project where many units of the same nature (technical design, coding, testing) are tracked in the project and when the promissed date means more than the baseline finish.
Great, thanks!!
Posted by: Joël Séguin | Monday, August 02, 2004 at 05:19 AM