It’s a great tutorial file and will help you navigate the different parts of a budget as Microsoft sees it. The main issue I have with all of them is that they aren’t MS Project files/templates.Īnd then there is the “Create a budget” file that you can find using the Office templates in MS Project (I added the file to the OneDrive as well). Here are some of the sites that you can visit and grab inspiration from: The difficulty with this approach is how will you set the budget for the year 2017 and let Project know that you only want to see that budget in that year? Templates that I could findīasically the bulk of what I could find was in Excel (go figure). Maybe you want to monitor budgets on a quarterly basis, or maybe on yearly level is enough for you. To counter this you could create budget resources for each time span you would like to have in the schedule. Making it difficult to have a budget for specific parts in the schedule. That means that the budget resources only exist on the top level of a schedule.
The most striking one is that the budget resource can only have an assignment on the project summary level. This can be very useful, but you need to be aware of some limitations to the budget resource. This changes the resource to a “Budget resource”. There is a specific checkbox that you can set for work and cost resources. This isn’t really the budget of a project. These are still just the planned costs, that can change into actuals once progress is reported on tasks. This is probably the fastest way to add costs, but they aren’t very specific either.īut, all that being said. Be aware that the cost resources have some specifics to them, described in another post.Īnd if you have one time only costs you could even leave the resources alone and add the costs as “Fixed costs” to the task itself.
If you add such a resource to a schedule task it will create a assignment that you can provide with costs. They start billing you even before the car starts to move -).įor expenses such as travel or other reoccurring costs you could create a specific Cost resource. The last one might be tricky to understand, but just think of it as a starting fee for work resources such as taxi’s. How does Project allow you to add these costs in a schedule?įor work resources we have the option of setting a hourly rate, overtime rate and even a cost at the start of a assignment. And there is the material costs that you might get involved in. But there are also machine hours, travel costs, maybe there is additional training needed. What are common items within a Project Budget to start with? There is of course a high degree of Human resource in most projects and these need to be payed. Let’s explore the different aspects of a budget, see if there are any templates already available and create a template that you can use.
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How to create a great schedule that will also be accurate enough for the project budget? And are there any templates for the project budget around?
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