Special Edition Using Microsoft® Project 2002

Understanding How Project Uses Resources and Costs

This chapter focuses on resources and costs—understanding what resources are, how to create a resource pool, and how resource costs are calculated in Microsoft Project. You will learn how to define resources and their costs and how to define costs that are not associated with a particular resource. With this foundation, you will then be ready in ensuing chapters to assign resources and costs to tasks, modify those assignments, and resolve conflicts that arise with overallocated resources.

Although you can create a schedule in Microsoft Project without assigning resources to the tasks, such a schedule is based on the assumption that you will have all the necessary resources on hand whenever you ...