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Analyze your Schedule and Network Diagram

To see the network diagram, click on View, then select Network Diagram. Activities on the Critical Path are outlined in red, while noncritical path activities are outlined in blue. You will need this information to answer the essay question in Step 3.

Allocate Resources
Once you have the WBS created in MS Projects, you need to assign resources to each activity. Remember only assign resources to activities, not other items on the WBS. Before you can do this, you need to create a resources sheet in MS Projects. To create a Resource sheet, click on View, Resource Sheet. Enter the Resource name, whether it is a human resource, a cost, or a material. Once this is finished, one can tie these resources to individual activities. Don't worry about costs, as that is next week's work. Get Assignment Help from World's Trusted Writing Service Provider.

To assign your resources to the aligned tasks in MS Project, follow the steps below.

Assign hourly resources and costs to the tasks that you have already entered.

Choose View-Gantt Chart. Place active window on the first task.
Click on the Double Headed icon on the upper tool bar (Assign Resources), or click Alt-F10.
In the resource assignment window, select the appropriate resource for each activity.
Repeat for all resources and activities according to the Resource List above.
Analyze Your Resource Allocation and Assignments
There are several methods to check for over-allocated resources.

Click onView, Resource Sheet-Resource(s) in red color are over-allocated.
Click onView, Resource Usage-Resource(s) in red color are over-allocated resource(s) by date.
Click onProject, Reports. A dialog box appears, click on Assignments then Select. Then click the report for Overallocated Resources, and then Select to print or view.
Remember with resources you need to assign how much time (by a percentage) each resource will be allocated to each activity. Simply lowering a given percentage may clear an over-allocation, but in real life this is not possible. One must come up with a better method do clear resource over-allocations.
You will need this information to answer the essay question in Step 3.

Step 3: Answer the Following Essay Questions
Now that your project schedule has been created and your resources have been allocated, please analyze your results and answer the following essay questions. In your analysis, be sure to identify the critical path and relate any time reduction opportunities to specific activities in the WBS.

Essay Question #1: Now that you have created a WBS and resource loaded schedule in MS Projects, what is your critical path? Does this critical path make sense? Do your predecessors make sense? How accurate are your durations? What could be done to improve the accuracy of your durations?

Essay Question #2: Are there any resources over-allocated? If yes, during which month(s) and what are some ways this might be addressed? Do not simply lower the percentage allocated to an overallocated activity.

Using your own words, I am looking for a one- to three-page essay report that addresses the essay questions above.