Best Practices

  • Before building a project team and optimizing your resource assignments, you need to define and create your Enterprise Resource Pool.

  • You can build teams for projects based on many different parameters, including resource skills, location, availability, and/or current workload.

  • Improve the performance of the Project Professional client over a WAN by disabling the capability to filter for resource availability in the Build Team dialog box.

  • Run the Resource Substitution Wizard only against a scenario with projects that have not started yet. If possible, do not include projects with tasks in progress for which actual work has been reported in your Resource Substitution scenario.

  • If you run the Resource Substitution Wizard scenario with ...

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