Inserting Changes into MS Project, see the impact on cost and time. MS Project for Beginners #10

[@alimansouri1517]

You are awesome. I leaned a lot. More power to you Tom🎉

[@TomStephensontraining]

Very appreciated Ali!!!

[@EhsanTeymouri-kc7ml]

I have learned a lot from your awesome videos. Thank you Prof. Stephenson.

[@TomStephensontraining]

Thanks for watching I’m happy they are helping you.

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Thank you Prof. Stephenson!

[@TomStephensontraining]

You are very welcome

[@frankeeizere5794]

I recently found your channel on youtube, researching Microsoft Project. I am a new General Contractor out Florida looking to organize my Project Management (scheduling, ordering, etc) keeping up with the who, what, when, and where. I also need a program that I can do business accounting; send invoices, track payments, bookkeeping, etc. I like Microsoft Project but can I do both PM and Business Accounting with it or should I get another program for business accounting?

[@TomStephensontraining]

Hi Franke, I would definitely suggest accounting software Ms Project won’t do accounting. Two that I would look at is Quick Books and Jonas, I believe both have versions directed for construction companies. Enjoy the weekend, Tom

[@JamesNguyen-w1r]

Hi Prof. Stephenson, I'm working in construction industry as a site engineer. I need help with MS Project. My goal is to see how the number of machine broken down impacts on the schedule, but that is a temporary change. Lets say I have 15 trucks in total, all assigned to 1 task. 2 of them are down in Feb (whole project is 1 calendar year). I can easily change the % from 1500% to 1300% but that would change the whole project truck number, not for Feb month or that period only. Any suggestion Prof. Stephenson?

[@TomStephensontraining]

What are they assigned to? Can you break that up to say a series of finish to start activities that are 20 days and then track those individually.

[@JamesNguyen-w1r]

Hi Prof. Stephenson, thank you for your reply. They are all assigned to a placement task. For this particular task, I assigned 1x dozer, 1x grader, 1x loading digger, 2x roller, 15x 740 truck. As you can see, if 2 trucks break down (which happen quite often), it definitely affects the rate of placement. We will still be able to keep going but we will place less volume compared to the scenario of having a full fleet of trucks running. My question is how can we show this in MS Project? Is there any way that MS Project works out the delay affect caused by machine break down on its own? Or we have to manually work it out then adjust the dates. My apology for the long reply, I was going to send you an email but it says business only. If you don’t mind I could flick you an email with my project files or some snippet of how it looks.

[@MegaAbdulaa]

@@JamesNguyen-w1r why don't you try to use the Resource Usage sheet to reduce the machinery usage for that period, then create separate task called [Delay due to Machineries Breakdown] to show the delay event separately