Projecting hours and total cost only shows part of the picture to a project manager it would be beneficial to see what labor rate your budgeted, actual labor rate, and projected labor rate based off of the hours. Currently our project managers are manually calculating this to see how they are performing and then projecting using additional Excel sheets. If these fields were added this would save our project managers several hours a month when performing cost projections. I would see it set up as follows:
Budget labor rate - locked field(similar to Actual Hours) that is based off of the budgeted dollars and hours
Actual labor rate - locket field (similar to Actual Hours) that is based off of the actual dollars and hours
Projected labor rate - calculated field (similar to % Complete Hrs.)
Christopher Bonnell
| Company | Helm Group |
| Job Title / Role | Director of Accounting Technology |
| I need it... | Yesterday...Come on already |
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Absolutely! Not only would it benefit PMs but support staff as well who spend countless hours reminding operations staff that Cost Projections are pulling in Payroll and not your "Billable Rate"...and countless more hours re-projecting after they're reminded. The Budgeted amounts could also be linked to JB Billing templates which could save a step perhaps.
AWESOME IDEA! PLEASE DO THIS ASAP! THIS IS A CRITICAL ITEM!
Greg and Mike's comments are both spot on in my opinion.
If can get tedious and time consuming to find the actual hours to date (not just through the projection period) in order to accurately calculate ECC. If this was among the information shown in the table it would be helpful.
Not sure if it would help but if we had "Future actual hours" to go along with the "Future actual cost". This would allow us to see the current hours billed per phase, all in the Projection worksheet as opposed to jumping to another report.
This would be a great addition in PM Cost Projections. I currently spend a lot of time building this in excel and would be great if I could see it automatically in the app.