Access

  • Project panel → Info Board → Cost Trend Analysis link in the Cost Trend area → Cost Trend Analysis
  • Project (Proposal) panel → Further... → Cost Trend Analysis link (will be displayed if the project already contains costs)

Information

  • In this module, the cost trend of the current project is displayed on the basis of status reports.
    • The status reports used for effort trend analysis that are displayed in this module should be selected in the Configure Trend Analysis module beforehand.

Details

  • In the left window
    • in the blue bar, header data of the current project and the current cost data will be displayed.
    • below the blue bar, header and cost data of all status reports of the project activated for the trend analysis will be displayed.
    • The status reports are sorted by report date in descending order.
  • In the right window, the projected cost data per month will be displayed below the time scale.
  • In the right window at the very bottom of the Trend Analysis area, data from status reports will be displayed graphically.
    • When you open the module, the data of all reports displayed here will be included in the graphic.
    • If you click on the Include in chart button next to the required status report in the left window, only the data of this particular report will be displayed in the graphic.
    • If you click on the button for further reports, the data of these reports will be loaded additively.
    • By clicking on the Reset button, the display in the graphic is reset to its initial state, i.e. the data of all status reports will be displayed.