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Microsoft Project Tutorial Resource Management - Decomission a Base Camp

Written by Dr. Andrew Makar

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I received an email from a United States Central Command inquiring about how to use Microsoft Project to track personnel on the military base and monitor resource levels as units deactivate during a base closing. The goal was to measure the total number of personnel at any given point of time and track the resources as the base downsizes. I thought about the issue and developed a quick resource management model in Microsoft Project. Since Microsoft Project supports resource assignments and resource pools, developing an ongoing model was relatively easy to do.

This example creates a work breakdown structure that is comprised of teams or units that are allocated to different tasks.

Microsoft Project Tutorial Resource Management Model

The actual tutorial on creating the decomission base camp resource management model is available on TechRepublic.com

Attachments:
File	Description	File size
baseShutdown.mpp	Microsoft Project Tutorial for a Base Camp Decomission	191 Kb
baseShutDownWithCosts.mpp	Resource Model with Costs	201 Kb