PPC for MS Project Revisited

August 1st, 2004 by Hal

Brian Kennemer made a fix to the PPC add-in for MS Project. See projectified: PPC Part III: This Time…It's Personal. He's corrected a bug and offered two versions for calculating PPC. The first version checks the complete date against the baseline finish date. He also has a version that calculates based on a 'Status Date', ~~essentially representing a repromise date~~. Brian wrote to say that I had it wrong. The 'Status Date' is the last date that the task was updated. Doesn't seem to be useful. PPC should be measured against the promise made by the task performer or the last planner responsible for making the assignment. Either way, the promise is made at the last responsible moment. The baseline date is likely to be different from the promise date by an actual performer.

For those of you using MS Project for your projects the PPC add-in will provide a measure of planning reliability. Reliability is the key measure for dealing with dependence and variability in the project environment.

Thanks again Brian!

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Hal Says:
August 2nd, 2004 at 11:03 am
Brian wrote me saying he is making another update to the PPC calc. This is looking promising.

See his posting at http://www.projectified.com/2004/08/the_ppc_blues.html

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