Special Edition Using Microsoft® Project 2002

Learning About Resource Scheduling

This chapter prepares you for the next several chapters, in which you will be assigning resources to tasks and dealing with the changes in the schedule and the scheduling conflicts that occur when you assign resources to tasks in your project. This chapter gives you the background and understanding you need to use resource scheduling effectively. The details of using different views both to enter assignment information and to deal with changes and conflicts in the schedule are covered in the next two chapters.

This chapter explains how Microsoft Project calculates resource assignments and schedules and reviews the controls you can exercise over those calculations. Project performs numerous calculations in the ...