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This nugget, the next in 3.0 Managing Resources and Assignments, is focused on 3.2 and 3.3. 3.2 is going to be a bit of a review. We've already talked about the Task Types, Fixed Work, Fixed Units and and Fixed Duration, but we're going to apply the Resources. So 00:00:19 we are going to assign the Resources that we've already created in the previous nugget and we're going to further explore W=UxD because they all work together. Depending on the Task Type, depending on the Units, the Resources, depending on the Work and the Duration, it's going to directly impact on the schedule calculations. So this nugget is really going to put it 00:00:42 all together. We already have our Tasks in Microsoft Project. We already have our Resources in …show more content…

So we go to the Resource tab and look at the ribbon for the Resources. We have a button here called Assign Resources. If I open up the Assign Resources I get another window that's going to pop up. And the reason Steve particularly likes this window is, it's a stay on top. I'm on Resource 1. I've already assigned, sorry. I'm on Task 1 I've already assigned Resource 1 as per our select from the list box. I can simply go to Task 2. and the stay on top box remains and I could say Task 2 is going to be assigned to Resource 2 for example, and I click Assign. 00:05:20 So now we see Resource 2 has been assigned. The Work, the Units is 50%. Why? Because this resource is only available to us by the Resource sheet for 50% of the time. So let's have a look at what assigning a 50% Resource does to a task. If I move my window just a little bit we see the 00:05:43 Task has a three day Duration. Resource 2 is only available to work on the Task 50% of the time. So if we take 3 days x 8 hours would be 24 hours. At a rate of $10 an hour, one would think the cost would be 240 but because Resource 2 is only available to work on the task 50% of the time, we only work on the task for 12 hours, instead of 3x8 which is 24, and therefore the cost is only $120. And we can go on assigning resources because this again is a stay on top. We go to Task 3 and we say we're going to assign Resource 1 to that Task, and we're going to assign Resource 3 to a Task.

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