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Project analysis is based on the status information that you can enter for each activity in the Customizing project. We use the term "activities" here, although you can also store and analyze status information for project IMG structure nodes.

You can analyze data for a single project or for several projects, depending on the scope of your project or the purpose of your analysis.

You can use the following criteria for analyzing single or multiple projects:

General project data

IMG structure node text

Resources

Project manager

Employee

Keywords

Keywords

Status

Status

Percentage complete

Deadlines

Planned start

Planned end

Project start

Project end

Resources

Planned resources

Current resources

Remaining resources

Documentation

Documentation types

Memo text

Memo

Management data

Date created

Created by

Date on which last change was made

Last changed by

The following project analysis scenarios are possible:

  • Planned activities without actual data

    The system analyzes all activities for which the planned project start falls within the period you specified for Planned start and for which no actual activity data yet exists.

    Analysis criteria: Project number(s), Planned start period, Current resources = initial (no values), Remaining resources = initial (no values).

  • Activities not yet completed

    The system analyzes all activities for which the planned project end falls within the period you specified for Planned end and for which 100% completion has not yet been achieved.

    Analysis criteria: Project number(s), Planned end period, Percent complete < 100.

  • All activities started

    The system analyzes all activities for which the actual project start (from the actual data of the activity data) falls within the period you specified for Project start and for which the actual project end is still open.

    Analysis criteria: Project number(s), Project start period, Project end = initial (no value).

  • All completed activities

    The system analyzes all activities for which the actual project end (from the actual data of the activity data) falls within the analysis period you have specified.

    Analysis criteria: Project number(s), Project end period

  • Individual analyses

    In addition to the above scenarios, you can perform individual analyses and define these as your default analyses. To be able to compare individual values in the analysis result to each other, you can calculate the total for any column you want.

    Example

    For example, you are implementing several projects and find that the planned resources calculated are incorrect and that you will probably need more time.

    To check the relation of the planned resources to the current resources, you analyze all activities that are not yet 100% complete. Afterwards, you calculate the total for the

    Planned resources, Actual resources and Remaining work columns on the basis of the analysis result: Project number(s),