HI, many thanks for the great work, it make ms project easier to learn. You share many video lesson numbered on this platform, now i wish to request you number them like lesson 2 of 30 if there are 30 clips so as to make it easier to know the number of video shared.
I need little help, I have 2 files of and I want merge its activities and costing file 1 cost is around 90000 and file 2 is 30000, after merge the total cost didn't increase it still 90000, what can I do???
Hi Dear , many thanks for your video. I have 1 question How I can set payment time in Ms.Project? For ex. I should pay for material in advance , but for work 2 months after work done. Or with 2 months delay. When I set it to 3 months work period, all cost devide to this 3 months and it is not correct. In other hand , I will recive money 3 months after sales deliver. Should I add 1 new task like "receive money" for it or there is better way? Thank you
MS Project costing for construction is fundamentally flawed. Construction managers don't plan by hours because that's like sand in your hands. Subcontracting is at the core of the business and you won't do that on hourly rates. You do it by unit rates, based on a good BoQ. A work around in MS Project is to use Material resources for all subs in a task. Use fixed work for tasks and input BoQ in work field and estimated output (units/day) in assignment units field. You will find an automatically calculated task duration based on a estimated quantity of work and a known output/day. I am so surprised how this is not well documented by specialist instructors or even in the MS Project manual. Without this workaround MS Project is of very limited use to a construction manager. Somebody should pick this up and start making more realistic use of MS Project.
Good morning Simon, My name is Charles and the Managing Partner of Charles & Gold Consulting a training and project management firm. Currently we are working on an online training mall in Nigeria like udemy and will like you to show case your product on our platform Nigeria is the leading country in Africa and provides a platform to meeting training needs of African. We hope to hear from you. Regards,
Been watching your videos. Thanks. I'm struggling with how to input subcontractors in the resource sheet. They charge me a fixed cost whether it takes them 1 or 8 hours for a task that normally takes 2. If I set the type to cost, Project wont let me input the cost in either the rate or cost/use field. Help?
Amazing course, thanks. Do you have a video to show how to sum up the %Completion of subtasks to display at Higher level ?
HI, many thanks for the great work, it make ms project easier to learn. You share many video lesson numbered on this platform, now i wish to request you number them like lesson 2 of 30 if there are 30 clips so as to make it easier to know the number of video shared.
I appreciate your feedback Hannington. We will see what we can do.
I need little help, I have 2 files of and I want merge its activities and costing file 1 cost is around 90000 and file 2 is 30000, after merge the total cost didn't increase it still 90000, what can I do???
Kindly advise, use ms project 2019 or 2016.?
This video focuses on Microsoft Project 2016, I hope that helps!
Hi Dear , many thanks for your video.
I have 1 question
How I can set payment time in Ms.Project?
For ex.
I should pay for material in advance , but for work 2 months after work done. Or with 2 months delay.
When I set it to 3 months work period, all cost devide to this 3 months and it is not correct.
In other hand , I will recive money 3 months after sales deliver.
Should I add 1 new task like "receive money" for it or there is better way?
Thank you
i have also same question
super
Hi, can i input labor cost base on quantity? thanks
CAn anyone tell me why when I put in 8 hours at $25 it calculates to $230 instead of $200?
MS Project costing for construction is fundamentally flawed.
Construction managers don't plan by hours because that's like sand in your hands. Subcontracting is at the core of the business and you won't do that on hourly rates. You do it by unit rates, based on a good BoQ.
A work around in MS Project is to use Material resources for all subs in a task. Use fixed work for tasks and input BoQ in work field and estimated output (units/day) in assignment units field.
You will find an automatically calculated task duration based on a estimated quantity of work and a known output/day.
I am so surprised how this is not well documented by specialist instructors or even in the MS Project manual.
Without this workaround MS Project is of very limited use to a construction manager.
Somebody should pick this up and start making more realistic use of MS Project.
Can you explain it even further. I really want to know this idea. Thanks
Good morning Simon,
My name is Charles and the Managing Partner of Charles & Gold Consulting a training and project management firm.
Currently we are working on an online training mall in Nigeria like udemy and will like you to show case your product on our platform
Nigeria is the leading country in Africa and provides a platform to meeting training needs of African.
We hope to hear from you.
Regards,
Been watching your videos. Thanks. I'm struggling with how to input subcontractors in the resource sheet. They charge me a fixed cost whether it takes them 1 or 8 hours for a task that normally takes 2. If I set the type to cost, Project wont let me input the cost in either the rate or cost/use field. Help?
you can enter the cost for it right before assigning resources