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When leveling doesn’t eliminate overallocations

When leveling doesn’t eliminate overallocations

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When leveling doesn’t eliminate overallocations

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- [Bonnie] Hi, Bonnie Biafor here. Sometimes the over-allocations you want to remove are still there after leveling resources. In this tip I'll show you how to correct factors that prevent project from leveling resource over-allocations. The first thing we're gonna do is scroll down through this task list. And we're gonna look in the indicators column for the red people icons that show that resources are over-allocated. And you can see that there are several tasks throughout this project schedule. So we're gonna go ahead and see what might be preventing project from leveling these resources. The first one to look at is date constraints, things like must start on or must finish on. The best practice is to avoid these in the first place. But the other reason to avoid them is that project can't level tasks that have these constraints. You wanna change them to a more flexible constraint like as soon as possible. There's an easy way to look for tasks that have these types of date…

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