Lesson 5: Assigning team members to tasks

In the final lesson of this tutorial, you will learn how to assign team members to a task from the project that you have allocated in the previous lesson.

To assign a team member to a task, the project manager must allocate the team member to the same project. When you assign a team member, by default, the assignment is for the entire duration of the task. However, if required you can change the assignment dates.

To assign a team members to tasks:

  1. From the WBS tree, select the same project that you have selected in the previous lesson, and then select the project task.
  2. From the Project Resources list, click the team member to assign to the selected task. By using the control button you can also select multiple team members.
  3. Click Assign. The selected team member is assigned to the task for the duration (start and end dates) of the task. The task effort is divided among the selected team members.
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Lesson checkpoint

In this lesson, you learned about the following concepts:
  • Project allocation to assigning task
  • How to assign team members to tasks