Microsoft Project Tutorial Part 28 The resource graph
Wouldn’t you say that it’s hard to be Sarah in this example:
When you view the Resource Graph (View—>Resource Graph), it can look something like this.
On the left side you have a resource. If you scroll the left scroll bar, you select resource. And on the right side you have the graph, showing some kind of information. But what are you look at?
Well, if you look at the text just over the left horizontal scroll bar you can see that it reads “Pek Units”. This means that Sarah has assigned AT THE MOST 200% during Q2 2009.
If you change view to Gantt chart, you can see that she’s not so very booked after all:
She’s actually booked 200%, but just during 1 minute. So, don’t take the resource graph too seriously.
But the resource graph can be used. If we switch back you can see that you can right click the diagram part and choose metric. And here Work probably says more that Peak Work:
And if we use a better project, it actually says something. When I changed to a real project, changed metrics to Work and customized the timescale (double click timescale) to show months and weeks, I can see the work load for each resource per week:
Compare this with the same view but with Peak Units selected instead;
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