Project 2013 Intermediate

Project 2013

Lesson 2 – Adjusting Resources

Switch to the Resource Usage view. Use the vertical scroll bar as necessary to display the 16 Backhoe Operator resource, which appears in red, indicating that it is overallocated. Select the 16 Backhoe Operator resource.

Steps

Practice Data

1. Scroll the timescale to display the hourly breakdown for the desired task(s). The hourly breakdown appears with overallocations displayed in red.

Click in the Editing group on the Task Ribbon to scroll to the week of Aug 7,’16.

2. Select the Format tab under the Resource Usage Tools tab. The Format ribbon appears. 3. Go to the Details group and choose the detail you wish to see. The selected details are added to the Resource Usage view.

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View the T (Tuesday) field for the week of Aug 7, ‘16 and notice that the Backhoe Operator is overallocated by 16 hours.

Practice the Concept: Display the Remaining Availability by clicking the checkbox in the Details group. Scroll as necessary to see that the Backhoe Operator resource is available for sixteen hours on Monday of the week of Aug 14,  16 .

Hide the Remaining Availability field deselecting the Remaining Availability command. Hide the Overallocation field as well.

R ESOLVING C ONFLICTS BY I NCREASING U NITS

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Discussion

One method of solving overallocation problems with a resource is to increase the maximum units assigned to the task, if possible. For example, if your project shows

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