Shawn Bauer Project Expert Team Resource Pools Shawn Bauer Project Expert Team MPUG Phoenix Chapter
Introduction Slides, with questions and screen shots, available on website http://www.mpugphx.org Time is limited; questions may be deferred until end of presentation Questions may also be submitted from the MPUG-Phoenix website MPUG Phoenix Chapter
Resource Management Overlapping Projects Resources organized by functional area Workload Forecasting MPUG Phoenix Chapter
Resource Pool Share resources across multiple projects Identify conflicts between assignments in different projects Centralize resource Information MPUG Phoenix Chapter
Definitions Sharing File – each project that uses resources from the resource pool Precedence – File order in which resource information is used MPUG Phoenix Chapter
How It Works Resource File Project File (sharing file) Precedence Data Synchronization MPUG Phoenix Chapter
Demonstration Create pool Share pool with second project Evaluate resource overallocation Modify resources In pool In project Disconnect projects MPUG Phoenix Chapter
Resources MS Project online help MS Project website http://www.microsoft.com/project MPUG-Phoenix website http://www.mpugphx.org See a Project Expert Team member or email your question expert@mpugphx.org MPUG Phoenix Chapter
Questions? MPUG Phoenix Chapter