AerospaceBrett
Technical User
I've used some high-end PM software titles and then there's MS Project and Microsofts methodology of EVMS, etc. What I'm trying to accomplish was pretty simple in most of the programs I've used.
We're using 2010 and I need to help a customer with a high-level schedule, year long tasks with an established BAC with an associated BCWS derived from other tools by the PM.
The goal is to simply load this budget as a dollar cost figure into (task usage maybe?) or wherever in Project 2010 that will allow me to load these monthly (what I consider BCWS figures) month by month totaling to a BAC for each task. Each of these high-level tasks all have various associated BACs and I'd like a monthly total for the sum of all tasks. This was super easy in Primavera, Scitor, Deltek Open Plan, etc, etc.
We are not using any Resource Sheet resources at all, perhaps a dummy resource name to capture the cost as an assigned resource/placeholder, but that's it. Not using Units or Work, rates, etc to calculate BCWS, etc, just want to load direct cost and see the changes when tasks are moved to the left or right due to impacts, etc, without changing said tasks BAC. I've been playing with Cost & Fixed Cost and do not think it's what I need due to their respective characteristics and limitations within the tool as to what can or will be reported from the tool.
This is a very high level schedule used for what-if scenarios. I'm well aware there are much more involved methods & techniques to doing this, but I'm presenting what the customer wants, quick, simple tool (vs Excel) to spread BCWS without changing a tasks BAC.
Appreciate any help.
We're using 2010 and I need to help a customer with a high-level schedule, year long tasks with an established BAC with an associated BCWS derived from other tools by the PM.
The goal is to simply load this budget as a dollar cost figure into (task usage maybe?) or wherever in Project 2010 that will allow me to load these monthly (what I consider BCWS figures) month by month totaling to a BAC for each task. Each of these high-level tasks all have various associated BACs and I'd like a monthly total for the sum of all tasks. This was super easy in Primavera, Scitor, Deltek Open Plan, etc, etc.
We are not using any Resource Sheet resources at all, perhaps a dummy resource name to capture the cost as an assigned resource/placeholder, but that's it. Not using Units or Work, rates, etc to calculate BCWS, etc, just want to load direct cost and see the changes when tasks are moved to the left or right due to impacts, etc, without changing said tasks BAC. I've been playing with Cost & Fixed Cost and do not think it's what I need due to their respective characteristics and limitations within the tool as to what can or will be reported from the tool.
This is a very high level schedule used for what-if scenarios. I'm well aware there are much more involved methods & techniques to doing this, but I'm presenting what the customer wants, quick, simple tool (vs Excel) to spread BCWS without changing a tasks BAC.
Appreciate any help.