> ## Documentation Index
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# Projects

> PMP-aligned project management — WBS tasks, job costing, earned value, and client-signed change orders

Projects is NEXOS CORE's project-management module for delivering scoped client
engagements (implementations, migrations, buildouts) rather than break-fix
tickets. Work is organized into a WBS task hierarchy, tracked across the PMP
process groups, and measured with job costing and earned value management. Each
project ties to a company (and optionally a contract and site), a project
manager, a team with cost and billing rates, budgets, milestones, risks, and
client-signable change orders.

Open projects at `/projects`, or the kanban board at `/projects/board`.

## When to use it

* Deliver scoped client engagements with a plan and a budget.
* Track budget-vs-actual job costing across labor, materials, subcontractor,
  travel, and overhead.
* Watch schedule and cost performance (EVM: SPI/CPI, EAC forecasting).
* Run formal change control with client e-signature on change orders.
* Bill projects as Time & Materials, Fixed Price, or Milestone-based.

## Structure

* **Tasks & WBS** — a hierarchy of tasks with WBS codes, estimated/actual hours
  and cost, percent complete, and PMI-style dependencies (finish-to-start and the
  other three) with lag.
* **Milestones** — including billing milestones with an amount.
* **Team** — members with cost rate, billing-rate override, and allocation.
* **Budget, expenses, and POs** — budget by category, with expense
  approve/reject and PO approve/receive.
* **Risk register** — probability × impact scoring with response strategy.
* **Stakeholders, notes, lessons learned**, plus Gantt and profitability views.

## Job costing and earned value

The **job-costing** view rolls up labor (time entries × member cost rate),
expenses by category, received-PO cost, and overhead into total cost, gross
margin, and budget variance.

**Earned value** produces a snapshot on demand: BAC (budget), PV (planned value),
EV (earned value), and AC (actual cost), plus the derived metrics — SV/CV, SPI,
CPI, EAC, ETC, VAC, and percent complete.

<Note>
  EVM snapshots are generated **on demand**, not on a schedule — trigger a
  snapshot to capture the current numbers.
</Note>

## Change control

Raise a change request; if it's over your internal-approval threshold it routes
for approval, then the client signs it on a secure page (name, email, signature,
IP captured). A change order can optionally create a PO automatically.

## Good to know

* **Invoicing from a project isn't built yet** — billing modes are stored and
  selectable, but the project doesn't itself produce invoices (the invoice action
  currently returns "not yet implemented"). Bill through the
  [billing](/billing) module or a [contract](/legal/contracts) for now.