microsoft project training courses - Budgets

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Sat 5 May 2007, 09:02 Delegate Martin said...

Martin has attended:
Project Intro Intermediate course

Budgets

How do I allocate a budget (unrelated to work or materials--i.e. specified ex ante by me) to each task specified on the Gantt chart view?

Wed 16 May 2007, 16:02 Trainer Andrew said...

RE: Budgets

Hi Martin

Insert two new fields into your table. The first is called Fixed Cost, the second Fixed Cost Accrual.

With these fields visible you can record costs that are not resource dependent and decide how those costs should accrue as you progress through your project.

Hope this helps - do let us know if we can be of further assistance.

Kind regards,

Andrew

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MS Project tip:

Keep constraining dates to a minimum

As far as possible avoid fixing the dates of your tasks. For example try to steer of clear dragging task bars in the Gantt chart to move them on the timeline or entering dates directly into the Start / Finish fields.

Date constraints such as these limit Microsoft Project's ability to automatically adjust your project whenever you add, remove or modify the duration of your tasks. Instead use the logic in your task dependencies that link your tasks to enable Project to calculate the start and finish dates for you.

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