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What is Committed Portfolio Selection Decision Date (Cost) field?
What is Committed Portfolio Selection Decision Date (Cost) field?
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The Committed Portfolio Selection Decision Date (Cost) field shows the commitment date of a Portfolio Selection Scenario as determined during cost constraint analysis.
What is Committed Portfolio Selection Decision (Cost) field?
What is Committed Portfolio Selection Decision (Cost) field?
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The Committed Portfolio Selection Decision (Cost) field shows the result of a cost constraint analysis on a project. You can choose Selected, Unselected, Forced-In/Out, or Custom Forced-In/Out.
What is Committed Planned Start Date field?
What is Committed Planned Start Date field?
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The Committed Planned Start Date field shows the beginning date of the project as committed to in a Portfolio Selection Scenario during resource constraint analysis.
What is Committed Planned End Date field?
What is Committed Planned End Date field?
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The Committed Planned End Date field specifies the finish date of the project as committed to in a Portfolio Selection Scenario during resource constraint analysis.
What is Code field?
What is Code field?
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The Code field contains any code, abbreviation, or number you want to enter as part of a resource's information.
What is Can Level field?
What is Can Level field?
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The Can Level field indicates whether resource leveling can be done on a resource.
What is Business Need field?
What is Business Need field?
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The Business Need field is used to specify the business requirement for the current proposal. When you add information, be sure to be as specific as possible. This field is controlled by the workflow.
What is Budget Work field?
What is Budget Work field?
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The Budget Work field is used to enter or review budget work for budget work and material resources. Budget resources are assigned only to the project summary task.
What is Budget field?
What is Budget field?
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The Budget field is used to view or change whether a work, material, or cost resource is a budget resource, that is, a resource whose work, material, or costs should be tracked in the project.
What is Budget Cost field?
What is Budget Cost field?
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The Budget Cost field is used to enter or review budget costs for budget cost resources. Budget resources are assigned only to the project summary task.
What is bottom-up organize method?
What is bottom-up organize method?
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Organize tasks with the bottom-up method, you list all the possible tasks first, and then you group them into phases.
After you decide on a method for organizing your tasks, you can begin outlining them into summary tasks and subtasks.
What is BCWS (Planned Value or PV) field?
What is BCWS (Planned Value or PV) field?
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The BCWS (budgeted cost of work scheduled) field contains the cumulative timephased baseline costs up to the status date or today's date.
What is BCWP (Earned Value or EV) field?
What is BCWP (Earned Value or EV) field?
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The BCWP (budgeted cost of work performed) field contains the cumulative value of the task's, resource's, or assignments's percent complete multiplied by the timephased baseline costs.
What is Baseline1-10 Work field?
What is Baseline1-10 Work field?
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The Baseline1 through Baseline10 Work fields store the total planned person-hours scheduled for a task, resource, or assignment.
What is Baseline1-10 Start field?
What is Baseline1-10 Start field?
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The baseline start fields (Baseline1 Start through Baseline10 Start) store the planned start date for a task or assignment at the time that you save a corresponding baseline.
What is Baseline1-10 Finish field?
What is Baseline1-10 Finish field?
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The Baseline1 through Baseline10 Finish fields store the planned completion date for a task or resource assignment at the time that you save a corresponding baseline.
What is Baseline1-10 Duration field?
What is Baseline1-10 Duration field?
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The Baseline1 through Baseline10 Duration fields store the span of time planned to complete a task.
What is Baseline1-10 Deliverable Start field?
What is Baseline1-10 Deliverable Start field?
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The Baseline1 through Baseline10 Deliverable Start fields contain the planned deliverable start dates saved with the corresponding project baselines.
What is Baseline1-10 Deliverable Finish field?
What is Baseline1-10 Deliverable Finish field?
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The Baseline1 through Baseline10 Deliverable Finish fields contain the planned deliverable finish dates saved with the corresponding project baselines.
What is Baseline1-10 Cost field?
What is Baseline1-10 Cost field?
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The Baseline1 through Baseline10 Cost fields store the total planned cost for a task, a resource, or an assignment.
What is Baseline1-10 Budget Work field?
What is Baseline1-10 Budget Work field?
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The Baseline1 through Baseline10 Budget Work fields store the originally planned budget work amounts for work resources and material resources that are specifically identified as budget resources.
What is Baseline1-10 Budget Cost field?
What is Baseline1-10 Budget Cost field?
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The Baseline1 through Baseline10 Budget Cost fields store the originally planned budget cost amounts for cost resources that are specifically identified as budget resources.
What is Baseline0-10 Remaining Tasks field?
What is Baseline0-10 Remaining Tasks field?
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The Baseline0 through Baseline10 Remaining Tasks fields contain the number of scheduled subtasks that remained to be completed on a given day for a summary task, when the baseline was set. They also contain the number of scheduled tasks that remained to be completed on a given day for a subproject, when the baseline was set.
What is Baseline0-10 Remaining Cumulative Work field?
What is Baseline0-10 Remaining Cumulative Work field?
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The Baseline0 through Baseline10 Remaining Cumulative Work fields contain the remaining amount of time scheduled for all resources assigned to tasks, when the baseline was set.
What is Baseline0-10 Estimated Start field?
What is Baseline0-10 Estimated Start field?
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When you set a baseline, Microsoft Project copies the Scheduled Start dates for a task or assignment and stores them in the Baseline Estimated Start fields (Baseline Estimated Start to Baseline1 Estimated Start through Baseline10 Estimated Start). This is true whether the tasks are manually or automatically scheduled.
