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db8673
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Apr 25, 2023
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How to allocate resources within a group

Hi folks,   I have a many months-long project being worked on by a 4-person team. There are hundreds of tasks in this project. I have all the predecessor and successor relationships built and I'm w...
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    John-project
    Apr 25, 2023

    db8673 

    It sounds like you have given good thought to the various options but unfortunately it all boils down to using either a group resource (i.e."Team") or individual resources. Project has no option for an either/or.

     

    I think the best you can do is to use individual resources and then carefully manage assignments. Leveling can help with overallocations but it will not optimize resource usage.

     

    Those are my thoughts, perhaps a colleague will offer other suggestions.

    John

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therealToomanyhats
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May 01, 2023
does project professional have Team Assignment Pool and Team Name like PWA
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John-project
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May 01, 2023

therealToomanyhats 

Dale is better qualified to answer this question since I don't use PWA. As a stand alone app, Project Pro has Team Planner and it also supports resource pool configuration so you could create a team based pool file using group resources.

 

Keep in mind that Project Pro works with Project Server which has PWA as part of the enterprise configuration.

 

John

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