These are projects posted by the students of Dr. Gove Allen at Brigham Young University. These students have taken one semester-long course on VBA and generally have had no prior programming experience

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Project Analysis for Current Employer

Trevan Reeves
4/16/13

Executive Summary
For my final project, I tackled a business problem that my current employer was facing. I currently work for Rego Consulting, which provides software consulting to over a hundred clients. At any given time, this company is working on approximately 150 different projects for all of these clients. These projects all have different scheduled finish dates, as well as differing amounts of budgeted hours. Some projects may only be scheduled to take one week, while others may take over a year.
            The problem that needed to be solved was to find a way to quickly analyze all of the active projects based on their scheduled finish dates and hours. My boss asked me to build a project that would do three things. First, the report should display projects that are at or near their scheduled finish date. Second, the report should display projects that whose actual hours consumed are over or close to the budgeted hours allowed. Third, the report should calculate a burn rate to determine which projects are consuming their consuming their hours to quickly based on how much time is left until scheduled completion. Using this report, my boss (the CFO of Rego Consulting) hoped to be able to discern which projects needed to be restructured with the client to adjust the finish dates, as well as what projects to warn the resources that they need conserve hours better.
            Using VBA, I have built a report that accomplishes these tasks and provides management with the needed information.


http://files.gove.net/shares/files/13w/trevanjr/Final_Project_WriteUp.pdf
http://files.gove.net/shares/files/13w/trevanjr/Final_project.xlsm

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