Overview
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Manage projects with limited resources (people or equipment) with Microsoft Project. Learn to assign resources, find overallocations, substitute resources, and track your progress.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Understanding the project scenario
- What you need to know
- Using the exercise files
- Developing a project resource plan
- Replacing generic resources with named resources
- Substituting resources during planning
- Using resource calendars to specify when resources are available
- Scheduling part-time workers
- Finding overallocations at a high level
- Tracking down overallocation details
- Replacing a resource with someone less experienced
- Assigning contractors to offload work from overallocated resources
- Eliminating overallocations by extending durations
- Adding resources to offload work from assigned resources
- Adding resources to handle extra work
- Rescheduling assignments for when resources are available
- Leveling resources
- Setting a baseline
- Recording progress
- Assigning overtime
- Replacing a resource who is no longer available
- Next steps
