Microsoft® Office Project 2003 Inside Out

Chapter 7. Assigning Resources to Tasks

• Assigning Work Resources to Tasks

• Assigning Material Resources to Tasks

• Reviewing Assignment Information

• Changing Resource Assignments

• Contouring Resource Assignments

You have tasks. You have resources. Now you need to match them up. Tasks + resources = assignments. With human, equipment, and material resources assigned to tasks, Microsoft Office Project 2003 can create a project schedule that reflects not only the project calendar, task durations, dependencies, and constraints, but also the calendars and availability of assigned resources.

Assigning Work Resources to Tasks

When you assign a work resource, you are attaching the resource name to a task and then indicating how much of the resource's total availability ...