A
andrewandrew
Try as I might I can't figure out how the Budget Cost feature does anything
useful--the Microsoft documentation says that it's used to set a baseline
that I can track my actuals against. Isn't that what the real baseline is
for? And it's quite a hack to get it to work too--I need to show the PJ
Summary Task, create a custom field to group by, and edit it in the Usage
View. I know most users of MSP don't know how to do any one of these things,
let alone all three.
So I ask--what's the value of this new, convoluted feature?
If I wanted to group resources under a certain budget heading, roll-up their
baseline costs and compare them with their scheduled or actual costs,
couldn't I do just that?
And if it was too much for me to breakdown the budget into a single baseline
cost for each resource, is it really so hard to just make a dummy resource to
hold the budget cost for that category, WITHOUT having to monkey around with
the PJ Summary and the Usage Views?
Someone please illuminate me, I want to love this feature!
useful--the Microsoft documentation says that it's used to set a baseline
that I can track my actuals against. Isn't that what the real baseline is
for? And it's quite a hack to get it to work too--I need to show the PJ
Summary Task, create a custom field to group by, and edit it in the Usage
View. I know most users of MSP don't know how to do any one of these things,
let alone all three.
So I ask--what's the value of this new, convoluted feature?
If I wanted to group resources under a certain budget heading, roll-up their
baseline costs and compare them with their scheduled or actual costs,
couldn't I do just that?
And if it was too much for me to breakdown the budget into a single baseline
cost for each resource, is it really so hard to just make a dummy resource to
hold the budget cost for that category, WITHOUT having to monkey around with
the PJ Summary and the Usage Views?
Someone please illuminate me, I want to love this feature!