 Hey everyone, me again. I want to show you a few tips and tricks about how to assign resources in Microsoft project Well, first thing you need to do is go to the view ribbon and the resource sheet and Build out your resource pool if using Microsoft projects online. You could pull these resources from an enterprise resource pool But I'm not actually going to be doing that. I'm going to be using just Microsoft project standalone So to do that, I'm going to come in here and start typing the names of the resources that I want for my project You see I've already started to do that. I can add a couple more in here. I'm going to add Mary Jones You can see when you first create them work resource by default I've got other videos on on this but you know, we can create material resources cost resources work resources We can also give them a standard rate 75 bucks an hour and We're good to go so build out your resource pool. That's the first thing Once you've got that you want to have a good variation of work resources cost resources and maybe some material resources I'm going to need some concrete on my project material label here and You'll notice that I can specify how much I charge I'm going to say I will charge $50 per let's say a Truck Right, so a truck of concrete right fill that up in practice. That's a bit generous make it 500. So every time we have a truck Costs is $500. All right, so we're not drilling into that too much I want to now come back and start assigning my resources Easiest way to do that here is just come in click on the drop down select who you want. There we go I could put who was it. We just created Mary Jones Look here, and there we go. She's assigned. Oh You can see that she's actually That's been assigned to a milestone definitely not what I wanted And if you look at my previous video, it will tell you how to get that my tips and tricks in Microsoft project I'll put that up on the screen at the end so you can take a look at that But yeah, let's come out of this one and we're going to remove Mary like so And again, I'm going to come in here and put Mary on the dig foundations. There we go You see she's assigned. She's actually going to be assigned full time to work on that project You see down the bottom here. I have this little kind of widget. It's called the task form It allows me to see all the different variables that I've set So we always see that I already had a duration set for this task units work If I want to adjust this I can say well, I didn't want her to work part-time 50% units There we go. We can see she's now 50% Working on that what I actually did is push out the duration used to be two weeks She's only working 20 hours a week now as opposed to 40. So it adjusted the duration for me based on the units This is a great way to come in and quickly assign resources as well. I can do more. Let's put Krista on there Let's also Add myself Tom Henry and press okay, and they're all assigned as well I can adjust the units up or down using this task form Now for this project I'm actually coming in here And I just want to get real quick and dirty and assign to a selection of tasks myself Tom Henry We come in click on the task here Hold down the control key, and I'm going to select a selection of other tasks There we go, so I've selected a few others now I'm going to come to the resource ribbon and click assign resources. This is this bring up the assign resources dialogue Which will allow me to Assign resources to the tasks that I selected all in one go for this time. I'm gonna put Tommy on there And you can see he's been assigned to all of those you see I actually made a mistake and did actually assign Tommy there I can use this same dialogue to remove him So another nice thing about the assign resources come in and let's try that again for these tasks here I'm going to assign Krista and Tommy at the same time boom I can adjust the units up or down here as well if I wanted Maybe Krista is working part-time There we go Quick and easy So that's how you can assign resources first way just using the resource names drop down second way using that task form You can get that at any point coming in the view ribbon Clicking details and by default you should see task form if it's not click on the drop-down and select task form If this form doesn't look quite like this You can right-click and the one I'm using it's actually the default is the resources and predecessors But there are other views that you can have in this split view as well That's another quick tip there, but I like the resources and predecessors just because that's the default But there are many others You can see the predecessors to that task here You can get full access to the Assignment planning variables the duration the units and how many hours of work when that task is effort driven Essentially it locks the work for that task and you can adjust the task type. That's a whole nother topic there But uh, that's another way once you finish that just drag it down. You want to bring it back? drag it up like so and you can also access that from the view ribbon The last way I showed you was the assign resources dialog. I really like this and click assign resources I can assign multiple tasks multiple resources to multiple tasks or multiple resources to a single task or One resource or multiple resources to a single or selection of tasks lots of options there And you can get a little bit granular there not as granular as the task form, but pretty granular So those are three methods that I like to use. There's no right way to do it It's whatever works for you for whatever you're trying to achieve now You can see that I have got some significant Overallocation here because I haven't really been looking at that when assigning resources but When you do that using the task form you can definitely get into that and start figuring out Are you over allocating and make your allocations realistic? Thanks so much for watching and we'll see you very soon