8 Things & More on How to Add Resources and Costs to Your Project, MS Project Made Easy Tutorial 4

[@tadiosnyamuziwa5679]

Thank u Prof for the informartive presentation.

[@TomStephensontraining]

Happy to help!!!

[@NEhsan]

Great Video Mr.Stephenson! Keep them coming

[@TomStephensontraining]

Thanks Naqib

[@indrebeaty8309]

Excellent explanation …very helpful Thank you !

[@TomStephensontraining]

Great! I’m happy to help in your learning journey!

[@andrusmihail5660]

Very clear, Relaxing voice timbre, Controlled movement on the screen, Examples for everyone to understand, Summary of knowledge at the end of the presentation, Information about adjacent lessons, Thank you very much, I will not miss a lesson!

[@TomStephensontraining]

Thanks for the kind words Andrus, im happy you are enjoying the videos!

[@jeffreypavos2218]

Thank you Tom

[@TomStephensontraining]

Thanks Jeffrey

[@shazaomar2570]

Thank you so much, Tom! Your videos are so great, informative, and easy to understand! Thank you so much :)

[@TomStephensontraining]

Happy they help you Omar!

[@tomimiringi]

AM SO HAPPY AND EXCITED....FROM NIGERIA

[@TomStephensontraining]

Great! Wonderful!

[@Robert-tg1qm]

Clearly made easier, and this might have been a great place to define the (r/d) Request / Demand box, as you defined it for me in detail... a redirect addressable in the **resource sheet, and simply allows for a higher level of information on the resource. Thanks Professor Stephenson.

[@TomStephensontraining]

Thanks Robert! Good ideas for future ones, I forgot about that.

[@YatishPriyadarshi]

Nicely explained. Loved the BG music too.

[@TomStephensontraining]

Thanks Yatish, very appreciated

[@suhaibabusameeha9677]

Very helpful, thank you

[@TomStephensontraining]

Thanks Suhaib for the kind comments

[@HansLinke-xb5fh]

Hello Mr. Stephenson, First of all I would like to thank you for the very clear presentations, I use them very regularly. Good to fall back on when you don't remember something 100% :-) I don't know if this is the right way to ask you for advice but I'll take my chances. I am currently managing a project with about 10 buildings and a total cost of ± 250.000.000,00€. Two of these buildings are divided into phases due to their size. Because there is an umbrella contract per subcontractor (over the entire project) I struggle a bit with the allocation of costs.... Dividing them by units of measure/task would take a lot of time and if I make an estimate I fear they will be too inaccurate. Can you suggest a method or do you have any tips that could help me further? Kind regards Hans T

[@TomStephensontraining]

Hi Hans, thanks for watching. I’m glad the videos give you ideas regarding the placement of cost. I realize this is a very big project really a master project with mini projects under its umbrella. Have you thought about cost at the summary task level? It’s not as detailed, but it does give a good sense of what’s going on , just suggestion hard to say without looking at everything. With regards to running the project I’m curious if there are any lean construction aspects being utilized thanks for watching.

[@HansLinke-xb5fh]

Hi Tom, sorry for my late response. I finally solved it by making a combination between summary tasks and “task usage”. Only the cost of work I entered in “task usage”, the rest in “summary tasks”. Certainly not detailed either but to get an idea of how many FTE are needed and what approximate monthly turnover we need to achieve to stay within deadline this already gives a good indication. As a black belt, I have been applying Lean for years on all the sites I follow, with great success. Several tools are already in use here, but most project leaders still look at it with suspicion. But little by little I get them convinced.... :-) I must say that suspicion of Lean is general in Belgium. When it became known in the construction world, the people teaching it were (and still are) theorists and usually have very little affinity with practice. And if you can only explain it and it only half works in practice you don't make fans.

[@sanan4751]

Your way of teaching is smooth and understanding. Thanks for the part Video. Sir. Would you like to help me reaching out Primavera tutorial same like your channel. Thanks In advance

[@TomStephensontraining]

Thanks Sanan, perhaps something i should look at as I have not seen it done well.

[@ishakuibrahim2345]

Prof, I have some challenges here, trying to assign resources to a road construction project, and I have a lot of overlaps in the duration ( which must be anyways). If I assign resources that occur more than once to the summary task ( as you have suggested in one of your Videos), what happens to the costs on the various Break down structures when I start the update? Thanks

[@TomStephensontraining]

Hi Ishaku, It depends how you list them and your particular requirements. For example if you have labourers and in your resource sheet you have 10 or 1000 percent then you might assign 2 to the summary as they are there all the time and then you can assign others to individual tasks. All I'm saying in the video is be careful if you assign 1 labourer to 2 tasks that overlap it will count their hours twice. You can go into the work usage and adjust their hours though. Check out this video it might help: Lesson 8 Updating Work Usage kzbin.info/www/bejne/an3OaniFg7JpftE

[@ishakuibrahim2345]

@@TomStephensontraining thanks prof

[@katharinefoley]

One the resource sheet you specified the PM was 100% work however on resource assign you stated 20% would I be correct to say this would impact the cost variance?

[@TomStephensontraining]

Hi Katherine, yes if I changed it after the baseline was set it would impact the cost variance. I can’t exactly remember what i did in that video though.

[@katharinefoley]

@@TomStephensontraining Hi Tom, Thank you, I just watched a follow up video you made, the cost variance did change. I'm catching up on your video tutorials. Thank you, they're great and very much appreciated!

[@katharinefoley]

@@TomStephensontraining Thank you Tom.

[@robincoutinho3334]

Hi I have a question. I have set working hours to 10 hr/day. But in the task usage it utilizes only 8hr/day and then remaining hours will be moved to next working day. I know we can manually change the working hours in the task usage. However is there an option to automatically set task usage to 10 hr/day ?

[@TomStephensontraining]

Experiment on a practice file but i think your problem maybe in the options under the file tab and schedule under project options box you need to set hours per day to 10 hrs so it aligns with the calendar assuming you set the calendar to 10 hrs. Try it