Your initial set of resource assignments might have been a thing of beauty. But, you know projects have a way of changing. And that might mean you have to change resource assignments. Project has several features to help you tweak resource assignments just the way you want. Ah, grasshopper, but first you must learn to master these features.

Suppose you want to change assignments to squash a five-day task into four 10-hour days. By setting the Task Type field, you can tell Project whether to change work, duration, or units in response to your task changes.

Then there's effort-driven scheduling, which means the effort -- that is, a task's total work -- stays the same. You usually add resources to a task to shorten its duration, which is why Project turns on the "Effort driven" check box for every new task. The work stays the same and with more resources pitching in, the task finishes in a shorter duration. If resources disappear, a task will take longer for the remaining resources to finish...

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