One of the most ubiquitous phrases in language today is “How much does it cost?” No matter how innovative or earth-shattering a project is, if the project is not completed at (or near) the budgeted cost, it’s hard to consider the project a success. As one might expect, Microsoft® Project includes the ability to create, [...]

At some point, every manager will have to address questions about their project’s costs. For example, is the project over budget, and if so, what can be done about it? Microsoft Project makes it easy to answer these questions. Once the user has assigned costs to their resources, cost status can be tracked throughout the [...]