

Use this option if you are not concerned about tracking costs or other resource information and your goal is to quickly assign resources to tasks and see these assignments in the Gantt Chart view. Creating work resources quickly in the Gantt Chart view If your project falls into this category, you can skip this section. Sometimes it’s sufficient to just define what needs doing, how long it will take, and in what order tasks need to be completed. Not all projects will require resources on them. At other times, when workloads and costs are of importance, then resources should be planned carefully and an understanding of the correct use of work, material, and cost resources is required.

In such an instance, one can assume that the monitoring of workloads or costs is not of significant concern to the project manager.

When you are adding work resources to a project schedule, it’s possible to add them quickly in an ad hoc manner this can be useful if the resources are assigned to a task full time or if they are used only as an indication of responsibility or ownership of a task. Work resources are used to track work and its related cost, material resources are used to track the materials used and their cost, and cost resources are used to track other independent costs. There are three resource types: work, material, and cost. Resources are required in order to complete tasks on projects, and once resources are defined, they need to be assigned to tasks. Resolving overallocated resources using the Task Inspector Creating work resources quickly in the Gantt Chart viewĬreating resources using the Resource SheetĪssigning a single work resource to a taskĪdjusting the work, duration, and assignment units for a task
