Project Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage, Fifth Edition

Resource Loading

1. LO 12.2 Understand how to apply resource-loading techniques to project schedules to identify potential resource overallocation situations.

The concept of resource loading refers to the amount of individual resources that a schedule requires during specific time periods.5 We can load, or place on a detailed schedule, resources with regard to specific tasks or the overall project. As a rule of thumb, however, it is generally beneficial to do both: to create an overall project resource-loading table as well as identify the resource needs for each individual task. In practical terms, resource loading attempts to assign the appropriate resource, to the appropriate degree or amount, to each project activity.

If we correlate the simple ...