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Cost and Usage Data from Baselines (Service)

View the following work effort and cost information for a baseline. The information is taken from the columns on the baseline revisions page of service properties:

• Usage. The total effort (actuals plus remaining ETC) at the time the baseline was taken. The actuals are posted against the assignments of the service.
• BCWP. Budgeted cost of work performed at the time the baseline is taken. The cost is the BAC value times the summary level percent complete.

You can use baselines to perform an Earned Value Analysis (EVA) on service performance. An EVA shows how much you have spent on your service to date.

Note: Define rates to the service staff and run the Rate Matrix Extraction job before baselining to get cost baseline values. Complete the percent values on summary task before baselining to get BCWP baseline values.