Re: Responsibility

"Dale Emery wrote:

Yes, this is a clever idea. The "rub" and there is always one is we 
need to teach MSFT Project new units. From the WBS and Work 
Auhtorization (in our DOE world) "work" is in units of $. 

So I'll give this a try Monday, since the "units" can be specified in 
many forms in Project and our EVMS tool (wInsight).

Glen

> Earlier, I wrote:
> > Those are the three basic quantities in EVMS.  From these, you can
> > calculate a cost performance index (BCWP/ACWP) and a schedule
> > performance (BCWP/BCWS).
> 
> I forgot to mention this:  If all you're interested in is schedule,
> then it doesn't matter that BCWP and BCWS are given in dollars.  You
> could just as well use Story Points Scheduled, and Story Points
> Completed, and calculate the schedule performance index as SPI =
> SPC/SPS.  How much stuff did we actually complete, compared to how
> much we scheduled to complete?  In the SPI calculation taken in
> isolation, story points are exactly as meaningful as "dollars," and
> they indicate exactly the same quantities.
> 
> Dale


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