Microsoft Project 2019 Step by Step, Fifth Edition

12. Fine-tune the Project plan

In this chapter

• Examine resource allocations over time

• Resolve resource overallocations manually

• Level overallocated resources

• Check the plan’s cost and finish date

• Inactivate tasks (Project Professional only)

Practice files

For this chapter, use the FineTunePlan practice file from the Project2019SBS\Ch12 folder. For practice file download instructions, see the introduction.

The previous three chapters focused on details about tasks, resources, and assignments. This chapter dives deeper into optimizing resource assignments—in some cases, revisiting Project features that previous chapters introduced. In this chapter, however, the focus is on managing across the entire plan, including managing overall duration ...