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Project Manager Cost and Effort Dashboard Portlet

The Project Manager Cost and Effort Dashboard displays project cost and effort performance amounts and variances. You can filter the results by the projects you manage or list all projects you have access to, including subprojects. Subprojects are always included under their master projects, but you can also display the subprojects in the top level of the portlet list. Displaying subprojects in the top level lets you filter on subprojects, using the filter options available in the portlet. For this reason, there is a Show Subprojects in List filter option of Yes that allows you to include Subprojects in the top level of the portlet list.

By default, this filter is set to No, which means subprojects will not display in the top level of the portlet list.

Milestones do not have hours or cost so there are no values for milestones in this portlet.

The following fields display on the portlet:

Project/WBS/Resource

Displays the name of the project, WBS, or resource. Click a Project/WBS/Resource link to open the properties page of the project, WBS element, or resource.

BAC Cost

Displays the system-calculated value of baseline at completion, which is the baseline cost at the time of the current baseline revision.

Sources:

• Schedule & Performance properties page of the project.
• Performance properties page of the task.

Actual Cost

Displays the system-calculated value of actual cost of work performed (ACWP), which is the total direct cost incurred in performing work based on posted actuals.

Sources:

• Schedule & Performance properties page of the project.
• Performance properties page of the task.

EAC Cost

Displays the system-calculated value of estimate at completion, which is the total cost of actual work completed to date and the predicted cost of finishing the remaining work.

Sources:

• Schedule & Performance properties page of the project.
• Performance properties page of the task.

Projected Cost Variance

Displays the variance between the estimated plus actual cost and the baseline cost.

Source: Schedule & Performance properties page of the project.

Formula: ((ETC Cost + Actual Cost (ACWP)) - BAC Cost)

Projected Cost Variance %

Displays a stoplight indicating the projected cost variance as a percentage of BAC cost.

Source: Schedule & Performance properties page of the project.

Formula: (((ETC Cost + Actual Cost (ACWP)) - BAC Cost) / BAC Cost) * 100

Stoplights:

• Green. The EAC cost is less than or equal to the baseline.
• Yellow. The EAC cost is between one and ten percent over baseline.
• Red. The EAC cost is more than ten percent over baseline.
• White. No baseline data exists

BAC

Displays the system-calculated value of the baseline effort (actuals plus remaining ETC) at the time of the current baseline revision.

Sources:

• Schedule & Performance properties page of the project.
• Performance properties page of the task

Actuals

Displays the system-calculated value of the actual effort posted for the task in the project.

Sources:

• Schedule & Performance properties page of the project
• Performance properties page of the task

EAC

Displays the system-calculated value of the estimated effort at completion (actuals plus remaining ETC) of the project.

Sources:

• Schedule & Performance properties page of the project
• Performance properties page of the task

Projected Effort Variance

Displays the variance between EAC effort and baseline effort.

Source: Schedule & Performance properties page of the project.

Formula: (EAC Effort – BAC Effort)

Projected Effort Variance %

Displays a stoplight indicating the projected effort variance as a percentage of BAC effort.

Source: Schedule & Performance properties page of the project.

Formula: ((EAC Effort – BAC Effort) / BAC Effort) * 100

Stoplights:

• Green. The EAC effort is less than or equal to the baseline.
• Yellow. The EAC effort is between one and ten percent over the baseline.
• Red. The EAC effort is more than ten percent over the baseline.
• White. No baseline data exists.

The Project Manager Schedule Dashboard and the Project Manager Cost and Effort Dashboard are based on the same query. Several fields are available for both of these portlets that you can add through the configure option. You can configure the fields from either portlet to appear on the other portlet. For the complete list of fields that you can configure, see the Project Manager Schedule Dashboard portlet description.