MS PROJECT - physical locations as resources

[akilambi]

Is it possible to create resources for physical locations (ex:
buildings, rooms, cages for animals etc.) in microsoft project. If so,
how do you do it?

 

[John]

Is it possible to create resources for physical locations (ex:
buildings, rooms, cages for animals etc.) in microsoft project. If so,
how do you do it?

akilambi,
Sure, these type of resource would normally be classified as Material
resources (i.e. non-labor). On the Resource Sheet, resources can be
classified as either Work or Material under the Type field. You will
note that when a resource is classified as a Material the Std. Rate
field loses its rate designation (i.e. $xx/hr) and effectively becomes a
cost per quantity which is determined when the resource is assigned.

I suggest you read more about material resources in the Project help
file. You might also want to take a look at fellow MVP, Mike Glen's
series of Project lessons and techniques. You can find a link to Mike's
series at: http://www.mvps.org/project/links.htm

Hope this helps.
John
Project MVP

 

[Steve House [Project MVP]]

Resources are one of two categories - work resources or material resources.
Work resources are things required to do the work and whose availability
effects the schedule. If you're filming a movie and have 3 cameras, those
are work resources, and their number limits you to filming at most 3 scenes
at once- you just don't have enough cameras to film 4 scenes. If buildings,
cages, etc are resources at all, they are probably of that type - you can
only run 10 tests at once because you only have 10 cages for the test
critters and you can only put 1 critter in each cage. Materials are things
that are either physically incorporated into the task's deliverable or are
used up in doing the task. In my movie, film is a material (when exposed it
is the deliverable the task creates) as is fuel for the generator powering
the lights (burned up when the lights are on for a shot). In your scenario,
a material resource might be the food for the test critters. Cages=work
resource, food=material resource.