Key takeaways

• When resources have more tasks than they can manage within a given time, they are overallocated. This can cause delays, lower work quality, and team exhaustion.
• To ensure a healthy balance between team resources and tasks, this chapter provided strategies to detect, level, and solve overallocations.
• To avoid project delays, find overallocations as soon as possible. Use tools such as the Resource Sheet, Resource Usage, Leveling Gantt, and Team Planner views to quickly see overallocations.
• Microsoft Project can level your project automatically to help you avoid overwork. You can use these leveling tools to distribute work evenly.
• Real-world solutions for overallocations include adding additional resources, reassigning tasks, extending task duration, or implementing improved technology, each with its own set of results to consider.