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Finding overallocations

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Finding overallocations

Workloads have to be just right so you keep your team members busy without burning them out. Project's Resource Usage View makes it easy to scan assignments for overallocations. Other views filters and fields can also help you find overallocations that you need to resolve. To see the Resource Usage view, go to the View tab and click Resource Usage. In this case, I'm going to go to the Task tab and click Scroll to Task, so I can see the assignments over in the grid. Well finding over allocations is really easy because you can see an overallocated resource, the Resource Name is red and bold and other values in the table are also red and bold. Then if you want to see the time periods that are overallocated, just look in the grid and look for the red text. So you can see a few weeks here are overallocated and then a few more. Because the Resource Usage View shows assignments, you don't necessarily see a lot of resources at the same time. But there's a shortcut to finding all the…

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