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    Question Need help or template for creating an S curves given a gantt chart and contract costs

    As the title says I need help creating an S curve. Basically the only data I have is costs of contracts and a gnatt chart. Sorry not sure how to tackle this or really explain it all that well or if its even possible given the materials. So lets say I have a contract for $100 framing for the project, the gantt shows the overall framing then the subsections that go into framing work. However, the contract only has the framing and not the breakdown. I was thinking I could convert the gnatt into some sort of numerical that would determine the curve of the payments from the contract over time. If anyone has tips or a template of something similar that would be a big help!

    If I can't somehow convert the gantt into a curve of work done I would settle for making a generalization something like this tool does:
    (I can't post a link because I am new, but google procore forecasting tool Apply Advanced Forecasting Curves)

    If someone has a template where I can insert a line item and choose whether its a front-end, bell-curve, back-end, linear curve that could also work. Thank you!

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    Re: Need help or template for creating an S curves given a gantt chart and contract costs

    It would help if you attach a sample of how you build your Gantt chart with a sample project like the one you described.

    If the there is no breakdown for the payments, how would you determine how much each payment is? Does your Gantt show labor for each subsection, which would allow payments to be proportional to labor?

    Do you want a curve showing each payment, or cumulative payments?

    Also your title specifically mentions S curve. Not sure how an S curve relates to what you are describing. Same for the other shapes you mention in the last line. The shape of the curve is going to be dependent on how you decide to allocate the payments.
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    Re: Need help or template for creating an S curves given a gantt chart and contract costs

    Here's part of the gantt (I would manually convert this to excel if I could do this). Yes it would be easier if I had a breakdown of payments, but I don't just the overall contract. So for example in the uploaded image I have the contract amount for Sitework and Foundations, but not the individual jobs under them. My instructions were not very clear, so I'm trying to merge this data into a visual graph the best way I can. I think the best way to do it is use the gantt to determine the curve for a costs over time line. So for example where work overlaps it would be highest and as the work comes to a close it'll go down to 0, in like a bell curve fashion.

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    Re: Need help or template for creating an S curves given a gantt chart and contract costs

    Your attachment is invalid. If you are trying to attach an image, first click Go Advanced below the edit window, then go ahead and insert the image by clicking the Image icon on the edit bar.

    So...you don't even have an Excel file at this point? The first thing is to develop an Excel file for your Gantt chart. I thought you just wanted to add a cost curve to an existing file.

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    Re: Need help or template for creating an S curves given a gantt chart and contract costs

    Try this attachment. I have the Gantt just not in excel form. Converting it would be easy, but time consuming which is why I haven't committed to converting it yet. I feel like the most important part of the Gantt is the start and end date, so what I want to do is basically link the cost to a time period for multiple line items then convert that to a graph showing costs throughout project lifecycle

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    Re: Need help or template for creating an S curves given a gantt chart and contract costs

    How do you derive the cost for each line item?

    If this is not in Excel, what's it in? If it's MS Project, it's pretty easy to export to Excel.

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