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→Switching Resources
In some instances you will not know which resources will be performing a specific task; in this instance you can use a number of approaches:
* Create a “generic resource” "generic resource" with average costs, and assign that resource when creating the estimate. Before starting the project, replace this resource with the “real resource”"real resource". If you use this approach you may encounter cost variance, as it is unlikely that the average costs used for the generic resource will be exactly the same as the actual resource cost.
* Assign a team of resources to the project. This approach will be discussed in more detail in proceeding articles.
* Alternative resources can be switched or added after budget, provided the original resource has not entered any timesheets.
* Resources can be “disabled” "disabled" after the project is live, if they have completed approved timesheets, but not removed them.
[[Category:Project and Job Costing]]
