Budgeted resorses moves with data dates

Dear Dieter,

Thanks for your response, using activity usage profile is not useful because you may have more than one resource with different units for instance reinforcing in kg, form working in m², concreting in m³, so that the summarised amount you get in this field is useless.

In addition when you plan (budget) an activity in a specific period, but for any reason this activity doesn’t start, after schedule you are not able to have the deviation of what was supposed to do and what have been done. So that how can you report the exact amount of job that is achieved in comparison of what you supposed to?

This is the thing that drives me nuts!

Sincerely,

Reza,

Dear Dieter,

Many thanks for your attention replying my questions. Regarding multi suspension activities, I’ll add more activities according to your recommendation.

Regarding resources’ budgeted unit, I think I couldn’t convey the issue very well. So let me pose the issue as below.

1: I defined activities, durations & relationships, all activities are “Fixed duration & unit” & “Physical % complete”.

2: I defined resources and assign them to activities and apply “budgeted units” for assigned resources.

3: I create project baseline as initial plan.

4: I applied actual for dates and resource actual units & remaining units.

5: I set the project baseline the initial plan.

6: you must consider that some activities which were supposed to be completed in the interval of planned and new data date were not started because of some milestones.

Then when I wanted to compare the budgeted unit with actual unit in the “Resource assignments” & “Resource usage profile” & “Resource usage spreadsheet” to find out the amount of jobs which was supposed to be done and the amount of jobs which has been done, there were not the correct result, because budgeted units moved after data date.

After I tried to add the “BL project nonlabor units” to the “Resource usage profile” which exists in “Columns” but it’s impossible, and then try to add in the “Resource usage spreadsheet” which is not exists in the “Customize spreadsheet field” and I failed to make the comparison.

Now according to your explanations about this issue I found that: when not started activities move after data date (which should move), they move their assigned resource’s budgeted units as well, So that we are not able to have the amount of original budgeting and actual units simultaneously in the “Resource usage profile”.

But how we can compare the budgeted units and the actual units in the “Resource usage profile” and get the deviation of “Budgeted & Actual”, I think the software should consider the BL budgeted units & the current project actual units in order to be able to check & investigate the status of the project at least in the “Resource assignments”.

How can I make the comparison? What is your recommendation?

Apologize for my long letter!

Your prompt answer will be highly appreciated.

Sincerely,

Reza,