4. C-Tasks, Assigned Resource Part

Manager shows task resources in special grid which is opened by clicking ‘+’ (red arrows on slide). Grid has own set of columns to ease resource assignments handling.

Add resources to C-Task

To add resource to C-Task please right click on task or resource name and select desirable option from Context menu. Use ‘Add New’ to create and add new resource. Resource will be automatically created in Resource Sheet and assigned to C-Task. ‘Select Few’ is another option to assign more then one resource at time. Resource usage view provided to help choosing.

Resource assignment management

Important parameters when we start assigning resource on C-Task are Consumption and Performance.

• Consumption is amount of resource spending on one task’s ML and is widely used as basis for resource demand calculations. Changing Consumption recalculates resource FV as = ‘C-Task FV’ * Consumption and vice versa, – modifying resource FV changes Consumption.
• Performance allows planning C-Task duration with higher level of accuracy. By default no values displayed in resource Performance column but always shown in C-Task Performance column . That means no resources defined as ‘bottle neck’ from performance point of view (lets remind that performance defines C-Task duration). In reality one of more resources usually are.

This approach is commonly used in professional scheduling and term estimation. That is exactly what Construction Project can do for you to achieve planning accuracy. Setting up values in resource Performance (not task performance!) column define resources as ‘duration critical’. C-Task performance is the Sum of resource performances.

And five cents more. As you see excavator is measured in machine-days (mech|d) and usually paid on ‘per day’ basis. And actually what we really do is taking its performance on one hand, work value to process (task FV) on the other and calculating duration by dividing second on first ( taskFV/Performance = 12.5 days above). Then we use that duration to estimate excavator FV. As you see Construction Project gives those 12.5 days automatically after setting performance 600+ 200 m3/d. The situation when resource is paid on per hour/day basis but its total amount of time obviously depends of performance is common.

Resource Cost assignment has possibility to use different costs for different C-Tasks for the same resource. Originally, MS Project is not flexible enough to do this in full range (only 5 values in A-E Cost Rate Tables can be used for resource). Construction Project for IN and OUT costs provides any cost rate for any resource for any C-task. See cost assignment details below.

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Columns, Actions and Calculations

Resources

Name of resource assigned to C-Task. Can be material or work type. Not editable manually. Assignment performs by right-click action below.

Fact FV

Actual physical volume. Shows Actual Work resource assignment in terms of MS Project. Read only.

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See also :

• Scheduling part
• Cost part