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