Executing Design Objects—Exercises
Required Data
Connecting Design Objects
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to familiarize
you with the data that must be in place before you can perform the exercises below.
- Connect a design object to an activity for your project.
General exercise for
Connecting Design Objects
Releasing Activities
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to familiarize you with the data
that must be in place before you can perform the exercises below.
- Release activities in your subproject structure.
General exercise for
Releasing
Activity
Create Milestone Template
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to familiarize
you with the data that must be in place before you can perform the exercises below.
- Create a milestone template and define a design status for a milestone.
Main Exercise
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to show you how
to execute a design object to update cost and progress on a connected activity.
Windows:
Project Connections
Project Navigator/Activity Design Object
- Open the Project Connections
page which holds the record for the design object you created and connected
in a previous exercise. Observe that the design status of the object is Under
Design.
- Verify that the Project
and Total Planned Cost and Total Planned Hours fields hold values.
- Verify that the Milestone
fields hold values. Observe that the Milestone Number is 10 and the Cumulative
Progress is 0%.
- Return to the Project
Navigator page populated
with your project.
- Select the relevant activity in the Navigator and click the
Activity tab and
observe that the values retrieved to the Planned column are based on
those just entered for the design object and placed against the correct cost
element. Also observe that the Calculated Progress is the same as the Cumulative
Progress on the design object.
- Open the Design Object page
and query for the design object you created in a previous exercise.
- Right click in the window,
click Status and then click Set Completed.
- Click the Project
Data tab and observe the Milestone fields. Observe that the Milestone
Number is 50 and the Cumulative Progress is 100%.
- Go back to the project activity that has been connected to the design object.
Observe that the value retrieved to the Calculated Progress field is
based on the design object progress value associated with the selected milestone.
- Observe that the Earned Value fields have been updated is based on the calculated
progress progress value and the planned values from the design object.