Lesson 7Assign Resources to Tasks
In Lesson 6, “Set Up Resources,” you added resource information to your Microsoft Project plan. Your resources probably include people—your team members who will carry out the project tasks. You might have also added information about equipment resources, material resources, and cost resources—the other items that help accomplish your project goals.
In this lesson, you'll assign people, equipment, materials, and cost resources to tasks and see the impact this has on your project plan.
After you assign resources to tasks, you can use different views to look at your assignments from various angles, which enables you to see if any resources are overbooked or underutilized throughout the project. You'll be able to view better projections of your overall project costs based on the cost ...