From the course: Microsoft Project 2019 Essential Training

Understanding resources

From the course: Microsoft Project 2019 Essential Training

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Understanding resources

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- [Instructor] Project has several types of resources to represent the resources needed to complete your projects. Depending on the type, resources can affect the project schedule, cost, or both. So let's start by looking at the resource sheet. On the Task tab, I'm gonna click the bottom half of the Gantt chart button. On the dropdown list, I'm gonna choose Resource Sheet. And we have a couple of different types of resources. The first one is Work. Work resources are resources that you assign by time, like people and equipment, how much time they're available, their work schedule, are both factors in when tasks can be scheduled. With work resources, when you define costs for those resources, that will represent the labor costs or equipment costs for your project. When you assign these work resources to tasks, Project will calculate the cost based on how much time they're assigned. The next type is material. With material resources, you assign quantity, not time. The cost is gonna be based on the quantity. You define the cost in the resource sheet, then when you assign the material resources to tasks and you give the quantity in the assignment, Project can calculate the cost. The third type is a cost resource. These are additional costs not related to work or material. It might be things like travel costs or fees, or tuition, the costs vary depending on the assignment so you don't even specify a cost in the resource sheet. Instead, you set the cost when you assign a cost resource to a task. Those are the different types of resources in Project and how they affect your schedule and project cost.

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