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Microsoft Project Basics
Basic handling of MS Project
Microsoft Project – Resources and Costs
Create personnel, material and cost resources and assign them to activities.
Illumination of the calculation methods.
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Microsoft Project – Resources and Costs
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| Duration: |
1 day |
| Target group: |
Project User |
| Target: |
Create personnel, material and cost resources and assign them to activities. Illumination of the calculation methods. |
| Prior knowledge: |
MS Project basic knowledge with scheduling |
| Content: |
How do resources come into the project?
- Data structure in MS Project: tasks, resources, assignments
- Types of resources and their characteristics
- Switching to the resource area and creating resources
Operation types – 5 variants of how an operation handles resources
- The standard formula “Work = duration times (resource) units
- The principle of fixing formula parts:
- Fixed work / Fixed duration / Fixed units
- The principle of power control
Effects of calendar settings on the calculation of benefits
- Project calendar / activity calendar / resource calendar
- Interaction of the calendars and their effects on the calculation
Monitoring costs and work performance – from PLAN to ACTUAL
- Special views for cost tracking
- Reports for cost analysis and working hours (e.g. “availability”)
- Export to Excel and further processing there
- Resources and costs
Working with calculated fields
- Calculated (user) fields – an overview
- Working with calculated fields in tables
- Create indicator fields (“traffic light”) yourself as a controlling instrument
- Use your own filters for effective resource search
Resource pool – central basis for several projects
- The concept of the main and sub-projects
- The resource pool as central resource information about all projects (Who does what when? / Who is available when?)
- Expansion of the pool to include information on absences
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