pdberger said:
John --
A lot of the costs are driven by factors that I haven't included in the
MSProject file, either because I don't know how or because they can't be
calculated there. These two files are to be used to describe the process and
costs to open a new medical office. For example, the costs for an electronic
medical record system are based on the number of docs, number of select other
staff, whether we're converting old paper records (and how we're doing it),
etc. So I've built a workbook to calculate those costs (and many others),
and want to take the output and attach it to the task "Implement EMR".
Does that describe the problem?
Thanks in advance.
pdberger,
Well it tells me that you probably need some training on how to set up a
working plan (e.g. opening a medical office) using Project. For that I
have a few recommendations. First, find somebody who does Project
training in your area. A very good company for that is Project Experts
at,
www.msprojectexperts.com. For self help you can take a look at
fellow MVP, Mike Glen's tutorials on our MVP website at,
http://www.mvps.org/project/links.htm
Nonetheless if you already have certain calculated costs associated with
tasks, those costs can simply be entered into the Fixed Cost field for
that task. However, a good schedule plan contains performance tasks. The
cost of performing those tasks is directly related to the labor and
material resources assigned. Project is designed to calculate costs in a
dynamic scheduling fashion. By trying to tie Project's scheduling
algorithm with cost data from another application, the result schedule
is going to be questionable at best. At least that's my opinion.
John
Project MVP
