Description:

This one-day course is the second of three on an important project skill which can make project management and completion more predictable.

This course is a companion course of Asta PowerProject and is intended to provide a working knowledge of the resourcing and cost management features of the package. Critical path analysis has its roots in model analysis and the resource and cost functionality of this powerful package provides the ability to make more and more exact models of the project to be implemented. This functionality is virtually unlimited to all practical purposes, making it possible for the user to control the degree of complexity which the project requires.

Asta PowerProject has a graphical user interface and this is used to great affect by the histograms, ‘S’ curves and other graphic information which can be included. PowerProject remains surprisingly straightforward considering the manner in which it manages complexity in making the model more realistic. Updating PowerProject is straightforward and immediately shows the effect of progress.

This course on resourcing and costing in PowerProject is enjoyable and will lead to significant benefits to the project management of your projects.

An Attendance Certificate will be provided at the end of this skill course.

Vital Benefits:

Scheduling on projects is best done collaboratively. This course provides you the following vital benefits:

• A detailed understanding of the use of resources and costs in the modeling of projects in Asta PowerProject
• An ability to produce meaningful histograms and “S” curves and other useful metrics for managing projects throughout
• An understanding of the valuable use of resources and costing in the monitoring and management of projects

Objectives:

Resources and costs must be monitored and managed throughout the project and Asta PowerProject provides a great solution. Through this course it is our objectives to:

• Teach you to use resources and costs in model realistically
• Teach you to update and monitor the use of resources and costs throughout the project
• Teach you to associate calendars to resources to reflect reality in the model
• Provide interesting and workable case studies and examples to anchor the learning
• Provide an introduction to baselines

Topics:

The course covers the following topics:

• Work in Library Explorer
• Set up library items for cost and resource
• Create cost centres
• Allocate costs to tasks in your project
• Create and allocate permanent resources
• Create and allocate consumable resources
• Draw cost and resource histograms
• Use baselines to compare information
• Apply progress to your project

Who to Attend:

Projects are mainly about time. We would recommend the course to the following project people:

• The client staff
• The project managers
• The project staff
• Line managers
• The professional services teams
• The senior supply chain managers
• Planning staff
• Everyone who wants to know more about PowerProject
• Anyone who sees project management as a career
• Those who want to develop their business skills