Maintaining total task work

- What if a task's work hasn't changed,…but you need to change its duration or units?…In project, the fixed work task type…keeps a task's total work the same…when you modify resource assignments.…To see how this works, we're going to…scroll down to the frame roof task.…I want to switch to the task usage view,…so I can see the task and its assignments.…But you know how to do that.…On the task tab, click the bottom half…of the Gantt chart button, and choose…task usage in the drop down menu.…

Now I can see my task and the assignments.…Over in the time phase grid, I'm going to…scroll over a little bit to the right,…so I can see the hours assigned each day.…The initial assignment, the carpenter crew…is assigned at 200 units, you can…see that down in the task form.…And that means that they work 16 hours a day.…The general contractor's gofer is assigned at 100 percent.…That means a maximum of eight hours per day.…

The one thing to notice in the indicators column,…there's the red over-allocated resources icon.…Suppose we want to get rid of this over-allocation.…