Progress Analysis Workbench 

Use

You can use the progress analysis workbench to analyze the progress of your projects and enter their percent complete. The progress analysis workbench:

·        Consolidates the existing progress analysis functions in the Project System (PS)

·        Simplifies earned-value management in PS by providing you with one screen for maintaining and viewing data instead of multiple screens, thereby giving you a better overview of project data and progress

·        Improves system performance and the accuracy of your data by simplifying the data update and allowing you to update multiple project objects simultaneously

·        Enables you to export and import data between the progress analysis workbench and Microsoft® Excel, which allows you to perform a decentralized data update

Prerequisites

You have entered values for progress analysis during project execution, made the relevant settings, and calculated the progress of your project. For more information, see the following topics:

·        Progress Analysis

·        Progress Analysis Process

·        Progress Calculation

Features

You can use the progress analysis workbench to display and edit data, such as user and system statuses, dates, and costing information, for the following project objects:

·        WBS elements

·        Activity

·        Activity element

·        Milestone

You can display project objects from several projects simultaneously.

You can use a Business Add-In (BAdI) to change the confirmation parameters for activities and activity elements. For more information, see Customizing for the Project System under Confirmation ® Enhancements for Confirmation ® Develop Customer-Specific Confirmations for the Progress Analysis Workbench.