Capital Project Management /Project Management

Reviewing Design to Baseline Variances

After you have defined your design costs, design schedules, baseline costs, and baseline schedules, you can review the variances between the design and baseline estimates by selecting the Review Variances - Design to Baseline task in the Process Navigator. This task provides you with a three-level report on Design to Baseline variances:

Project-level variances: The initial Design to Baseline Variances view is a summary of variances that displays information at the project level. This view contains fields with clickable links. When you click a link, a new window opens to display the variance data at the work package level.
Note: If you click a link for a project that does not contain work package data, then no data for the second-level view will be available.
Work package-level variances: The second-level detail views display variance data at the work packages level. These views also contain clickable links to see details at the action level.
Action-level variances: The third-level views are shown in the Review Variances form that displays data at the action level.

From any view, click Close to return to the previous view. Click Refresh to refresh the data so that the calculations include the latest data.

For information on estimating baseline schedules and costs, see the Estimating Baseline Schedules and Costs topic.

For information on estimating design schedules and costs, see the Estimating Design Schedules and Costs topic.

The Design to Baseline Variances report uses the Web Central View Analysis feature that allows you to drill down to various levels of detail. For more information on View Analysis views, see the Working with View Analysis Views topic.