Task Assignment Hours

Review task assignments and compare task assignment hours to allocated and capacity hours for project resources. Identify the tasks that contribute to over or underallocation of resources assigned to projects.

Drill down to identify the tasks on your projects causing resources to be over or underallocated. After identifying the tasks, adjust the resource assignment hours to ensure resources are assigned tasks according to their capacity. View tasks assigned to your resources on other projects and track the other projects resources are assigned.

Settings That Affect Task Assignments Hours

The Project Resources region in the Project Manager Dashboard displays task assignments to resources from the Manage Project Plan page in the Project Management work area.

Use the Manage Workweek Threshold action in the Project Resources region in the Project Manager Dashboard to set the acceptable threshold range for resources that are overallocated, underallocated, or allocated according to their capacity. Optionally, select the colors you want to use for indicating allocation of resources.

How Task Assignment Hours Are Calculated

The application rolls up the task assigned hours in the project plan for a resource and displays the weekly tasks assignment hours for a resource. Task assignment hours are the sum of all task hours of a resource in each project. The following example shows the task assignment hours for quality assurance resource George White on the projects Maxwell Software Upgrade and Rudy Corp. Implementation.

Project	Task Assignment	Task Assignment Hours
Maxwell Software Upgrade	Create Test Plan for Upgraded Features	7
	Test Flows	20
	Certify Features	1
Rudy Corp. Implementation	Create Plan to Test Implementation	12
	Prepare Test Scripts	24
	Conduct Implementation Testing	72

The task assignment hours for George White for the Maxwell Software Upgrade project is 28 hours, and for Rudy Corp. Implementation is 108 hours. The Project Resources region in the Project Manager Dashboard calculates George White's weekly task assignment hours based on his capacity, 35 hours a week, and the dates of the project tasks and displays whether he is overallocated or underallocated.