Chapter 9: Fine-Tuning the Project Plan

Chapter at a Glance

View work assignments per day or other time period, page 193. Edit resource assignments to manually resolve overallocations, page 199. Use resource leveling to resolve resource overallocation problems throughout a project plan, page 205. Check a project’s cost and duration statistics, page 212.

In This Chapter, You will Learn How to:

• Look at how resources are scheduled to work over the duration of a project.

• Edit a resource assignment to resolve a resource overallocation.

• Resolve resource overallocations automatically.

• See detailed and overall project costs.

• See tasks on the critical path that determines a project’s finish date.

Tip 

Do you need only a quick refresher on the topics in this chapter? See the Quick Reference entries on pages xxv–xlviii.

In the previous two chapters, you have focused on details about tasks, resources, and assignments. Now, you will examine the results of your previous work on the schedule and dive deeper into resource assignments. You’ll also observe the overall project duration and cost, as well as the sequence of tasks that determine its finish date.

Important 

Before you can use the practice files provided for this chapter, you need to install them from the book’s companion CD to their default locations. See “Using the Book’s CD” on page xix for more information.