{"id":7919,"date":"2013-05-24t15:36:35","date_gmt":"2013-05-24t19:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.deco-dalles.com\/?p=1829"},"modified":"2019-10-09t13:53:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09t17:53:54","slug":"p6-resource-s-curve-excel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.deco-dalles.com\/p6-resource-s-curve-excel\/","title":{"rendered":"graphing a p6 resource s-curve in excel"},"content":{"rendered":"
in my <\/span>previous tutorial in this series<\/a>, i described the procedure to export resource assignment data from p6 to excel<\/a>.\u00a0most of us have worked with excel charts in our job or during our study in college or university. what we all know is that they are really helpful when you want to demonstrate some analytical information without technical terms. in this tutorial, i am going to tell you how to develop a resource s-curve<\/a> in excel with p6 data.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n following the steps from our previous tutoril, you now have all the 世界杯时间比赛时间
and assignments in an excel sheet. you can modify the primary sheet for better graphical features.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n to draw resource curves, what we need is the two highlighted rows which are the cumulative total and the incremental total. they have the information needed for each month. so we just copy and paste these two rows and the date row to another sheet to have more space doing our job.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n copy the data to separate worksheet. now we have all the tools to paint a perfect picture of our project 世界杯时间比赛时间
. all we need is to use some formula to calculate the percentage progress for each month in our table.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n to calculate interval progress and cumulative progress, just divide the value for each month (man hour needed for each month) by the total value (the summation of all man hours).\u00a0 you can see the formula in the excel file attached to this tutorial.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n to graph any curve we should go to insert section of excel and then choose a chart type in charts tab. for this tutorial purpose we\u2019ll select the line chart<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n right-click on the curves that excel generated by default, which is not the curve that we want, and choose \u201cselect data\u201d.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n remove all the predefined sources and then hit the \u201cadd\u201d<\/strong> button.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n in this box define all the sources one by one. we should do it 3 times to define all the sources for our final s-curve. i define all the series below:<\/p>\n monthly man hour<\/td>\n cumulative progress<\/td>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0the last source definition is for the dates which result in our x axis. to do that on the \u201cselect source data\u201d box and under the \u201chorizontal axis label\u201d, hit the edit button and you will see a similar dialogue box as the above dialogue boxes:<\/p>\n select all the dates as the label range for the horizontal axis and hit \u201cok\u201d on dialogue box and then on the \u201cselect data source\u201d box. now you have the following chart<\/p>\n <\/p>\n now we should modify this s-curve, so we go step by step:<\/p>\n right-click on the curves and select \u201cformat data series\u201d. in the\u201d format data series\u201d box select the \u201ccum progress\u201d as the secondary curve (it means that this s-curve values are shown on the right hand axis)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n right-click on the monthly interval man hour curve (ie:the blue curve) and then select the \u201cchange series chart type\u201d. in the \u201cchange series chart type\u201d box, select \u201c2-d column\u201d chart.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n right-click on the right-hand vertical axis and select \u201cformat axis\u201d in the dialogue box go to axis options and change the second value from the top of form to 1.00<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n now you have a resource s-curve which still needs some modification:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n in excel 2007, when you select a chart, a \u201cchart tool\u201d tab will appear on the top right hand side of toolbar. in that chart you can change the color of curves, add title to curve, add table to curve. the following curve which is the final curve is the result of doing some exercises with those features:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n with this new p6 resource s-curve<\/a>, now your project manager can easily tell you there is something wrong with resource assignment and some leveling should be done on 世界杯时间比赛时间
to achieve a better distributed resource s-curve.<\/p>\n there are different ways of developing s-curves in excel but this method works well in many project circumstances.tutorial files<\/h2>\n
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step 1 – export primavera p6 resource assignments\u00a0to excel<\/h2>\n
step 2 – how to use the data<\/h2>\n
step 3 – copy and paste the needed data in separate sheet<\/h2>\n
step 4 – calculate the\u00a0progress\u00a0percentage<\/h2>\n
step 5 – graphing the s-curves<\/h2>\n
step 6 – defining the s-curve’s 世界杯时间比赛时间
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series name<\/td>\n series values<\/td>\n formula<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\r\n the row that shows interval man hour for each month<\/td>\n =sheet5!$c$3:$x$3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\r\n the row that shows cum. % prog<\/td>\n =sheet5!$c$4:$x$4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody><\/table><\/div><\/p>\n
\n<\/p>\nstep 7 – select a primary and secondary s-curve<\/h2>\n
step 8 – change the data type to a \u201c2-d column\u201d chart<\/h2>\n
step 9 – adjust the right-hand vertical axis<\/h2>\n
step 10 – the final touches<\/h2>\n
wrap up<\/h2>\n
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