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Delaying a task or assignment

Delaying a task or assignment

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Delaying a task or assignment

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- One way to resolve overallocations is by delaying tasks and assignments so the assigned resources can work on tasks one after the other. In this example, the Finalize Lease task, and the Identify Additional Costs task, both occur at the same time and they both use the Project Manager. But in this example, Finalize Lease is on the critical path, you can see its red task bar. Identify Additional Costs is not critical, it has a blue task bar, so this solution is perfect for a delay. We can delay the Identify Additional Costs task and still not affect the project finish date. When you work with delays, the best view is the Leveling Gantt, so on the Task tab, click the bottom half of the Gantt Chart button then go to More Views, click Leveling Gantt and click Apply. You can see the Leveling Delay field, that's how you add delays to tasks. This is the same field that Project uses in its Level Resources feature, so it's a great way to say that a delay is in a task specifically to eliminate…

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