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How Earned Value Calculation Methods are Applied

By default, the earned value (EV) calculation method for projects and tasks is percent complete. If your organization uses earned value management methodology for measuring project performance, your CA Clarity PPM administrator can change the default earned value calculation method setting. Change the setting to the method your company uses for projects and tasks.

Best Practice: Have your CA Clarity PPM administrator define the object-level default setting for projects and tasks. In this way, the EV calculation method defaults to this object-level setting when you create new projects or tasks.

You can override the object-level EV calculation method setting at the project and at the task level. When calculating the earned value metrics, the EV calculation method setting you establish at the task level is used. The results are rolled up to the project. If you do not define a method for the task, the task inherits the method from its parent task. If you do not define the method for the summary task, it inherits the method value from the project. If you do not set the method for the project, the task is ignored when the earned value is calculated.

If you create projects from project templates, you can set the EV calculation method in the project template. The projects, created from the template, inherit the setting.

Note: If you are using CA Clarity PPM with Microsoft Project and specify an earned value calculation method other than percent complete, use CA Clarity PPM to calculate, display, and report earned value metrics.

More information:

Default Earned Value Options (Investments)

Earned Value Metrics

Calculate Earned Value Totals

About Earned Value Calculation Methods

Set the Default Earned Value Options (Tasks)

About Earned Value Calculation Methods

Set the Default Earned Value Calculation Method

Default Earned Value Options (Investments)