Added by Michael McGrath 23 days ago
Hello everyone. We are looking to move our company off MS Project and are excited by OpenProject. Our primary use case with MS Project was "Project Costing" -- we created Work Packages with individual tasks within them and associated resources with these tasks. This allowed us to produce a "to the penny" budget for the entire project, including a report showing a monthly summary of cost. The resources are either professional services (specified as X resource type for Y hours at $Z/hour) or commodities with a fixed cost (for example, Training course $XX)
We've looked at Budgets and see that we can create budgets and associate these with Tasks. But I can't see a way to get a "total project budget" output. Is anyone familiar with our use case (or something similar) who can advise on how to best handle it?
Thanks
Michael.
Replies (1)
Hello Michael,
It is sometimes overlooked, but in addition to the Time and Costs module, there is a dedicated Budgets module that can be activated for each project. Essentially, you assign work packages to a budget, and when you log time and costs against that work package, they are taken into account. The Budgets module also enables you to plan a budget and compare it with actual costs.
This guide shows the possibilities:
https://www.openproject-stage.com/docs/user-guide/budgets/#budgets
Best,
Alexander