Your client is involved in automation control systems installation. Over the years, they have analyzed their total project spend on specific resource classes. They have identified that their cost spread distribution factor on a 10 spread point scale resembles: 0-4-10-11-14-13-10-4-0-0. Identify two ways to handle this kind of a spread on their budgets and forecasts. (Choose two)

The organisation can (1) build an exact custom spread curve and assign it to the relevant resource class so every budget or forecast that uses that class automatically follows the desired pattern, or (2) simply apply the delivered Bell Curve, whose symmetrical shape is very close to the required distribution and can be fine-tuned with minimal manual adjustments.

A. Attaching the custom curve only to a project template limits use to projects created from that template, not every occurrence of the resource class studied.
D. The predefined S-Curve is front-loaded then tapers; it doesn’t match the symmetric 0-4-10-…-4-0 profile.

1. Oracle Fusion Cloud Project Management 24B

Implementing Project Control

“Manage Planning and Control Spread Curves”

Table 5-9 “Assign a spread curve to a resource class”

pp. 74-75.

2. Same guide

Table 5-8 “Predefined spread curves – Bell Curve”

p. 72.