Time-Phase
Spread cost and units across periods with a choice of distribution curve, and read it as a histogram, an S-curve or a P6-style spread matrix.
Who it is for. Whoever has to produce a cash-flow or manpower curve for a client report or a funding submission.
What it is for
A total budget tells a client nothing; they need the shape over time, and the shape depends on how work is actually loaded. This spreads each activity’s cost and units independently, with a named curve per activity, and renormalises so the periods sum exactly to the total.
Phasing directly off an imported XER without loading the project as your own is genuinely useful to a consultant reviewing a client’s P6 file. The per-activity curve selection with exact renormalisation is comparable to P6’s curve library rather than better than it.
What it does
Every line below is in the product today.
Seven distribution shapes
Linear, front-loaded, back-loaded, bell, triangular-early, triangular-late and double-peak, chosen per activity.
Cost and units spread independently
Each gets its own curve. Actuals always spread linearly, because they happened rather than being planned.
No rounding leakage
Per-bucket values are renormalised so the spread sums exactly to the entered total.
The same double-count guard as the cost dashboard
Resource assignments, activity residual cost and cost rows all feed one spread, with assignment amounts subtracted from activity totals.
A spread matrix that mirrors the WBS
Indented rows, parent roll-up over all descendants, expand and collapse, a cumulative mode and a grand-total row.
Phase straight off an imported XER
Switch the data source between the native project and an imported P6 file — useful when you are reviewing someone else’s schedule.
It reads and writes with
Resource Assignments
Staff the schedule and see, period by period, where demand exceeds what your people can actually supply — with baseline, actual, remaining and scenario on the same axis.
Cost Assignments
Allocate budgeted cost to activities, WBS elements or the project, and track it from planned through committed to paid.
S-Curves
Baseline, planned and actual progress curves built from activity dates alone — no cost, no budgeted units, no resource data required.
See it on your own schedule.
Send an XER before the call and we will import it and show you Time-Phase running against your data.