Microsoft Software 2007
Resource Conflicts exercise
Average difficulty

This Microsoft Software 2007 RESOURCE CONFLICTS exercise is provided to allow potential course delegates to assess their suitability for the Wise Owl MICROSOFT PROJECT 2007 course only, and may not be reproduced in whole or in part in any format without the prior written consent of Wise Owl.

Exercise: Build 3 Fences - Levelling

A full answer to this exercise is provided as part of the training course!

1)	Download the files needed to start this exercise: exercise-943.zip (and click here if you experience any problems unzipping this file after downloading it).
2)	Open the file in the folder shown above and verify that this project has resource conflict problems by looking at (for example) the Resource Sheet, Resource Graph and Resource Usage views.
	It is clear that Adam has a problem on Tuesday...
3)	Level the entire project on a Day by Day basis, ensuring that the following options are selected in the Level Resources dialog box:
	These are usually the default settings
4)	View the results of your levelling in the Levelling Gantt view and confirm that your conflicts have been resolved (by checking if there is any red text on your Resource Sheet, for example).
5)	Try levelling again without Levelling can adjust individual assignments on a task ticked.  Which of your two levelling attempts was more sensible?
6)	Clear this levelling and then re-level the project as you see fit (remembering that Project's levelling tool is just one way of resolving conflicts!).
7)	Save the file with the name These must be big fences.mpp and close it down.

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