[Planner Dev] Reporting Actual Effort in the Tasks Page

[Cameron Shorter <shorterc2 optusnet com au>]

Hi,
I'm experimenting with using Planner to collect Earned Value Management 
data and there are a couple of things that I think will be easy to add 
to Planner to make help this.

Earned Value Management requires as inputs:
1. Budgeted Cost for Work Scheduled (BCWS)
This is basically a sum of the cumulative number of resources*labour 
rate calculated on a day by day (or month by month) basis.  It is quite 
similar to a resource utilisation table.

2. Budgeted Cost of Work Performed (BCWP)
Without history, this can only be calculated for the current time in the 
project.  It involves working out how much work has been completed and 
calculating a value for it.

3. Actual Cost of Work Performed (ACWP)
This data is usually collected from timesheets, not planner.

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I'd suggest that 1 and 2 would be quite easy to produce. Has anyone 
extracted this information before?

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Cameron Shorter
http://cameron.shorter.net