BCWS Element

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BCWS is the budgeted cost of work scheduled.

For a Task, BCWS is the cumulative timephased costs up to the status date or today's date.

For a Resource, it is the rolled-up summary of a resource's BCWS values for all assigned tasks.

For an Assignment, it is the budgeted cost of work on the assignment.

For a Baseline in a Task, BCWS is the cumulative timephased baseline costs up to the status date or today's date.

For a Baseline in a Resource, it is the budgeted cost of the work performed by the resource.

For a Baseline in an Assignment, it is the budgeted cost of work on the assignment to the current date.

<BCWS>
  DecimalValue
</BCWS>

Parent Elements

Task, Resource, Assignment, Baseline

Occurrences

Minimum: 0 Maximum: 1

See Also

Concepts

Task Elements and XML Structure

XML Schema for the Tasks Element

Resource Elements and XML Structure

XML Schema for the Resources Element

Assignment Elements and XML Structure

XML Schema for the Assignments Element