Resourcing

Hi Andrew.

First of all, thanks for your help previously.

I would like to resolve the following issue:

We have 15+ projects loaded onto project and i want to accurately track progress. If i do it by entering % work complete for each line item, it only says what the 'actual cost' is assuming the hours completed were as planned - which they sadly arent always!

We receive timesheet data on projects for each resource (consultant) and how much time they have spent on each consulting project. What I would like to know is if there is a way of entering this data (ie. no. hours spent on a project) into project to determine the cost of job to date, and value remaining? ie. i simply want to say - for project A, consultant A has spent 10 hours, consultant B 50hours, and it tell me whether I am overbudget for the project so far. However I do not want to have to manually enter hours for each day, i want to enter it as a total and have project spread it across the project so far.

Hope you understand!

Thanks,

Stuart

p.s. more than happy to write a recommendation for your work so far, as you requested when we spoke before

RE: Resourcing

Hi Andrew

I need to enter the total actual work for each consultant over the project, rather than a sum of the team's hours. Is there a way i can enter this - its almost like i need to split the screen to enter the actual work rather than just work.

Eeek. Annoying!

Thanks

Stu

RE: Resourcing

Yes i had a go at that one, the resource usage looks like it would work, but you can't enter in summary info, it is faded out, only allowing you to enter work completed for each task individually. I thought there was another view that worked but cant seem to find one that will let me enter in the summary data for each consultant. Any other ideas? Thanks again

Stuart

RE: Resourcing

But i believe that will make Project assume that all consultants have used the same amount of hours. Remember we have different consultants at different rates. I want to enter, for example, Charles has done 8 hours, Maeve has done 10, and Stuart has done 5 - then have Project tell me how much of my budget I have used up. And how much remaining. See what i mean? Thanks again for your time.

Stu