About Metrics and Calculations

P6 automatically calculates and displays various performance metrics designed to enhance your company's competitive edge within your industry. Color-coded indicators, such as Critical, Warning, Acceptable, and Exceptional, appear on dashboards and portfolio pages to provide instant visual feedback.

The following categories of performance metrics are applied to portfolios, projects, or even a single WBS to help you assess status relative to your goals.

Schedule - Metrics based on the current schedule, baseline duration, performance percent complete, and schedule percent complete. This category also calculates metrics at completion based on the current schedule. Examples include Schedule to Date, Cost to Date, Schedule at Completion, and Cost at Completion.

Earned Value - Metrics based on Earned Value calculations. This category includes the same metrics as the Schedule category, but uses different methods based on Earned Value concepts such as SV and CV.

Index - Metrics based on cost or labor unit indices. This category includes:

SPI - A measure of the work accomplished as a percentage of the work scheduled. The Schedule Performance Index helps determine if your schedule is meeting earned and planned values.
CPI - A measure of the value of work accomplished as a percentage of the actual costs. The Cost Performance Index helps assess spending vs. budget.
TCPI - A measure of the value of the remaining project work. The To Complete Performance Index helps determine the level of performance required to achieve your objectives within budget and on time.

Additional summaries, forecasts, variances, and other calculations are also provided automatically.

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