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Project Cost and Effort Portlet

The Project Cost and Effort portlet shows the following information for projects:

• Baseline against actual costs
• Baseline against actual hours of effort

The portlet aggregates the cost and effort numbers and stoplights at the project level, and includes the following fields:

Project/WBS/Resource

Displays the project name. Expand a project name to display associated task names. Expand a task name to display associated resources. Click a project, task, or resource link to open their properties pages and edit the project, task or resource.

Cost

Displays a stoplight indicating the project planned cost for the project.

Stoplight Colors:

• Red. Actual cost is over baseline cost by greater than or equal to ten percent.
• Yellow. Actual cost is over baseline cost by less than ten percent.
• Green. Actual cost is less than or equal to baseline cost.

Baseline Cost

Displays the total baseline cost for the project.

Actual Cost

Displays the total actual cost for the project.

EAC

Displays the total estimate at completion (EAC) value for the project.

Cost Variance

Displays the variance between the Baseline Cost and the Actual Cost for the project.

Effort

Displays a stoplight indicating the project ETC status.

Stoplight Colors:

• Red. Actual ETC is over baseline ETC by greater than or equal to ten percent.
• Yellow. Actual ETC is over baseline ETC by less than ten percent.
• Green. Actual ETC is less than or equal to baseline ETC.

Baseline Hours

Displays the total baseline hours for the project.

Actual Hours

Displays the total actual hours for the project.

Total Effort

Displays the total ETC for the project.

Hours Variance

Displays the variance between the Baseline Hours and the Actual Hours for the project.