Chapter 9, Handling Overallocations

Managing overallocations

In this exercise, you will practice the skills learned in Chapter 9, Handling Overallocations, in Microsoft Project. You will use the Commercial Construction template used in Chapter 8, Optimizing Projects with Advanced Resources, where resources are overallocated, and your task will be to detect, level, and resolve these overallocations using the tools and techniques discussed in the chapter. This exercise will help you ensure that your project runs smoothly without overextending your team:

1. Open the file used for Chapter 8, Optimizing Projects with Advanced Resources; this exercise will work with the overallocations that are shown throughout the file, indicated by the red man head in the indicator column of the Gantt chart.
2. Take some time to familiarize yourself with this file.
3. Detect the overallocations:
   1. Use the resource sheet and resource usage views to identify overallocated resources.
   2. Take note of the...