Sunday, 4 December 2016

Distribution of Resources Using Microsoft Project

Distribute Resources By Using Microsoft Project
To get the best performance and results from resources, we need to manage resource workloads to avoid over-allocations and under-allocations. If we want to change resource assignments, we need to check the effects of our changes on the overall schedule to make sure that the results meet our project goals. Hence, the way we can resolve resource conflicts or over-allocations is by using the resource-leveling feature in project. Leveling works by delaying tasks or splitting them such that the resources that are assigned to those tasks are no longer overloaded.
When it is leveling, project does not change who is assigned to each task. Project levels only the work resources, generic resources, and committed resources. It does not level the material resources, cost resources, or proposed resources.

Prior to leveling, we may want to modify a few settings such as task priorities which are an indication of a task's importance and its availability for leveling, project priorities which determine the project’s availability for leveling, and lastly leveling options which help us fine-tune how Project determines which tasks are leveled, and to what extent.

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