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Delay a task or assignment

Delay a task or assignment

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Delay a task or assignment

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- [Instructor] One way to resolve resource over allocations is to delay tasks. That way the assigned resources can work on tasks one after the other. Let's take a look at tasks three and four, Identify Physical Requirements and Draft the Budget. If you look at the time scale you can see they occur at the same time and they're assigned to the same resource. In the Indicator's column there are red icons for both of these tasks saying that the resource is over allocated. So let's say that we decide that we're going to delay the task, draft the budget so that it starts after identify physical requirements, finishes. To do that we're gonna start by applying the Leveling Gantt view. On the Task tab click the bottom 1/2 of the Gantt chart button and then choose Leveling Gantt. I'm gonna make a few changes to this view. First, I'm gonna point at the vertical divider to the right of the Name column. And I'm gonna drag to the right so I can see the task names better. Secondly, I'm gonna point…

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