Project Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage, Fifth Edition

Resource Leveling

1. LO 12.3 Apply resource-leveling procedures to project activities over the baseline schedule using appropriate prioritization heuristics.

Resource leveling is the process that addresses the complex challenges of project constraints. With resource leveling, we are required to develop procedures that minimize the effects of resource demands across the project’s life cycle. Resource leveling, sometimes referred to as resource ­smoothing, has two objectives:

1. To determine the resource requirements so that they will be available at the right time

2. To allow each activity to be scheduled with the smoothest possible transition across resource usage levels

Resource leveling is useful because it allows us to create a profile of the resource ...