Payroll (budget) help

[clay]

I have one programmer(40hrs), database manager(60hrs), 1 interface
manager(20hrs), 1 networking manager(20hrs), and 1 networking analyst(10hrs)
making 91.00 hourly. I need to know how to put this into project managment

 

[John]

I have one programmer(40hrs), database manager(60hrs), 1 interface
manager(20hrs), 1 networking manager(20hrs), and 1 networking analyst(10hrs)
making 91.00 hourly. I need to know how to put this into project managment

Mr. Clay,
Well, where to begin. First of all, what do mean by, "...put this into
project management"? Second, are the hours you list for each resource
type the effective availability of each on a weekly basis (i.e.
programmer - full time, database manger - full time plus overtime of 20
hours, etc.)? Third, is the 91.00 hourly the total combined of all
resources or is the bid rate for each of the listed resources 91.00 per
hour (i.e. common bid rate for those labor categories)?

Lots of questions, more information is needed.

John
Project MVP

 

[clay]

Thanks John
The $91.00 per hour is the hourly rate. The budget hours is the actual
hours that each it worker should spend in completing the project. The
working hours and the hourly rate is true given figures, the problem we are
having is setting up the hours for each resource to match the rate. We need
the resource page to compute the hourly rate times the hours worked. We have
set up the fixed cost and we have set up the hourly rate because it is only
one rate. We can not figure out how to set up the hours worked.

 

[Steve House [Project MVP]]

Project is not designed for payroll accounting. It is designed to estimate
the costs of getting tasks done based on the hours the resources work on the
tasks and the cost of each resource per hour. What's missing from the
problem as you've presented it is the tasks they're doing and the hours that
they are assigned to work on each of them.

You shouldn't try to assign Joe to something until $XX has been used up. A
task produces a concrete measurable output - 100 widgets are created, for
example, and it isn't done until that output has been achieved, regardless
of the cost. You estimate it will take Joe 10 hours to do it. If Joe get
$10 per hour, the cost of making the widgets is $100. The fact that Joe
also does other things and gets paid for those other things is outside of MS
Project's sphere of interest. The only thing it tracks is the cost doing
the specific work that creates the project's deliverables and nothing else
is accounted for.

HTH

 

[John]

Thanks John
The $91.00 per hour is the hourly rate. The budget hours is the actual
hours that each it worker should spend in completing the project. The
working hours and the hourly rate is true given figures, the problem we are
having is setting up the hours for each resource to match the rate. We need
the resource page to compute the hourly rate times the hours worked. We have
set up the fixed cost and we have set up the hourly rate because it is only
one rate. We can not figure out how to set up the hours worked.

Mr. Clay,
OOOOOk, there are still a lot of questions that need to be answered but
based on your reply I would recommend you go to our MVP website at:
http://project.mvps.org/links.htm
and take a look at fellow MVP, Mike Glen's series on Project techniques
and lessons. That should provided some needed training on how to
effectively set up and use Project.

Hope this helps.
John
Project MVP