Does any understand the rules around Project Exceptions and how to clear them especially the two that affect your cost:
Resource Planning
Planned Value Exceeded
Is there any documentation that explain these, have been looking at the Planned Value Exceeded and just presumed that it was that my Planned Cost was lower that my Committed Cost + Used cost. But on the example I looked at my planned cost was fine. So looked in more detail and discovered that Baseline cost was lower than my Committed + Used Cost, adding my activity to the Baseline cleared my exception.
Thanks
Mark
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Hi,
Have a look at these documentation links to see if it makes it clearer.
The analysis aims to detect problems which the activity or its connected objects might have at the time of the evaluation, and includes:
Checking if the activity budget has been exceeded.
Checking if critical deliveries and work can be achieved on time.
Evaluating the progress and need date of the activity connected objects.
To help with the above analysis, the following conditions are automatically presented as Activity Exceptions:
Resource planning has un-spread hours or missing price
Committed + Used Cost exceed Planned Cost
Committed + Used Hours exceed Planned Hours
Connected orders that are planned/due to be executed late
You can analyze activity connected objects using one of the below mentioned methods.
In Connections page of each connected object
In Activity Monitoring - Project Connections page
In Project Gantt
In Project Exceptions lobby
The Gantt gives a visual help to analyze activity exceptions. It is possible to:
View activities with exceptions.
View time-critical objects connected to an activity, making it easy to determine if any such connected object has a need or required date that fall outside the activity's early start and early finish dates. The objects that can be seen in the Gantt are Purchase Order line, Shop Order, Work Order and DOP Header.
Hi Asa
Thanks for your reply, i had come across these documents but was having trouble clearing some of them, as what is not documented is that the exception can not be cleared unless the Base Line cost is greater than the committed cost + Used Cost.
Thanks
Mark
Hi
If I understand you correctly, then your baseline cost was lower than your planned cost, this suggests that the project had a baseline where the Earned Value (EV) method was set to ‘Baseline’, and the planned cost increased after this baseline was established.
When the EV method is set to ‘Baseline’, it uses the baseline values compared to committed/used to assess project exceptions. If you wish to update the baseline values, you can either update them for the entire project or select a specific activity and use the ‘Add to Baseline’ option. You can also base the EV method on the planned values, if applicable, it will then use the planned values to assess the exceptions.
This example will give an exception if I have EV method “Baseline”, but not if the EV method is “Planned”.
