Curve Profiles Overview

Curve Profile Overview Video

Curve profiles enable you to specify the allocation of scope assignment costs, quantities, and hours over the duration of an activity; resource or role hours spread over the duration of an activity; and budget quantities over their durations.

Amounts are distributed evenly throughout an activity unless a nonlinear distribution is specified using a curve profile. Scope assignments can use curve profiles regardless of whether they are linked to activities.

Interpreting Curve Profiles

After you navigate to the Curve Profiles dictionary page, you can view all of the default and custom curve profiles available to you. Select a curve profile to view a graph that represents how it works. The x-axis,at the bottom of the graph, represents the percentage of the object's duration. The y-axis, along the left side of the graph, represents the percentage of the object that has been allocated to the duration percentages. The numbers beneath the graph indicate the curve value percent, which is the percentage of the is allocated at each increment of the duration.

Among the simplest built-in curve profiles is the Linear profile. Select it to view its graph. By default, the Linear curve profile evenly distributes 5.00% of the total quantity to every 5% increment in the item's duration, rounding as necessary.

Here is a list of all the built-in curve profiles: