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With over 20 years Powerproject training experience within the construction industry our Asta Powerproject training courses are designed to help you understand and use a range of features to produce professional looking project plans quickly.  Courses are delivered onsite (at your offices, UK wide), and all courses can be tailored to suit the way you work with the product.

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Powerproject 17 Cost and Resource Management course

1 Day

This practical Powerproject 17 Cost and Resource Management course is for those interested in labour loading a programme and working with costs and cashflow.  It focuses on working with resources (permanent and consumable), costs, and reporting on project progress.  Delegates will be able to allocate costs and resources to tasks, report on these allocations via a spreadsheet and histograms and use baselines to compare and report against planned versus actual data.

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What will you learn?

By the end of this Asta Powerproject 17 Cost and Resource Management course, attendees will be able to:

  • Create, allocate and manage costs effectively
  • Display and customise cost and resource histograms
  • Understand and use resources
  • Display cost and resource information in the spreadsheet

Audience?

This course is primarily designed for site managers, project managers, construction managers and schedulers.

Course Contents

Managing Costs & Income

  • Creating costs
  • Understanding cost properties:
    • Fixed Costs
    • Time based
    • Task work based
  • Creating cost tables
  • Allocating costs to tasks
  • Creating cumulative/monthly cashflow histograms
  • Income
  • Create net cash flow analysis
  • Cost profiling

Permanent Resources

  • Creating Resources – Setting up as basic resource library; Exploring resource properties
  • Allocating Resources – applying to tasks
  • Using resource cost rates
  • Creating a resource table
  • Using supplied Histograms
  • Creating resource histograms including over allocation histograms
  • Understanding resource modelling
    • Non‐modelled
    • Effort on allocation
    • Work on allocation
    • Work from task
  • Resource Breakdown Structure

Consumable Resources

  • Creating consumable resources
  • Allocating consumable resources
    • Non‐modelled
    • Quantity on allocation
    • Quantity from task
  • Supply and Consumption
  • Costs
  • Histograms

Baselines

  • Creating a baseline
  • Showing baseline v live cost comparisons
  • Creating cost comparison tables

(Optional Extra – Time Permitting)

Reports

  • Using the Earned Value Reporter
  • S Curves

Course Materials

Enliten IT will provide each delegate with a Adobe pdf format workbook and other useful reference materials where applicable.

“Very excellent training! Trainer was absolutely on point in teaching.

"Very enjoyable and easy to follow.  Ant is obviously very experienced as the course content flowed seamlessly" - Lee
"Very useful and informative course" - Owen
"Very clear, concise and detailed course. Thanks." - Ben”

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Prerequisites

Delegates should have attended our Intermediate course or have equivalent knowledge or experience.

Additional Information

Note:  We only offer this Asta Powerproject 17 Cost and Resource Management course on a private in-house basis.   For pricing and availability just pick up the phone and call us on 0845 1085481.