Asta Powerproject Training Courses

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 on-site (at your offices, UK wide), and all courses can be tailored to suit the way you work with the product. Consultancy is also available.

Asta Powerproject is the class-leading project, portfolio and resource management tool used primarily within the construction sector. Asta training is available for ALL versions of the product and to all knowledge levels including the NEC contract.

We now also offer 90 minute online Asta training courses!!

Asta Powerproject 16 Cost and Resource Management course

1 Day

This practical Powerproject 16 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 16 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.

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Additional Information

Note: We only offer this Asta Powerproject 16 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.

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