Adding resources

Resources are added into the Resource Chart pane with additional details like the default role. After assigning resources to tasks, you get a list of tasks and work loads for each resource in the Resource Chart. This helps the manager assess the duration when a resource is overloaded, and to perform an operation called ‘resource levelling’. This operation is available in MS Project but not in GanttProject.

You can see in the example in Figure 6 that two developers have more than 100 per cent load in August and September. In the Resources Chart tab, on the left are the resource names and roles; the right pane shows their load each week.