Audience: Resource Manager

Prerequisite: Course 601 (Planning & Scheduling with P3)

This one-day course will enable you to take full advantage of driving resources, resource curves, hierarchical resources, resource profiles/tables and resource Leveling. Learn resource calendars for planning and control and Rich Text Format reports for status reporting. Participants will develop, update and track resources and costs using a series of hands-on workshops.

• Organize activities into groups according to resource
• Use resource profile/tables for "what-if" analysis
• Define hierarchical and driving resources
• Assign resource lag and duration to activities
• Define linear and nonlinear resource
• Use reports to review resource/cost allocation

• Create resource calendars
• Define task, independent, and meeting activities
• Assign driving resources to different activity types

• Handling resource conflicts
• Differentiate between forward and backward leveling
• Perform hierarchical resource leveling on a project
• Review the effect of splitting, stretching, and crunching activities

• Analyze resource usage through resource profiles
• Assign hierarchical resources
• Define driving resources
• Create resource/cost curves
• Run resource/cost reports
• Apply resource calendars to a schedule
• Level resources