Goal: Manage information about shared resources

After you have entered enterprise resources into your project, you will typically need to review or change the resource information, such as resource availability, actual work, and assignments, to make sure your project is as flexible and cost effective as possible. Keep in mind that some of these activities, such as removing an enterprise resource or changing details about an enterprise resource, may be performed by roles other than a project manager. For example, some organizations may use a resource manager to manage specific resource details.

Tip: This article is part of a series of articles within the Project Map that describe a broad set of project management activities. We call these activities "goals" because they are organized around the project management life cycle: Build a plan, track and manage a project, and close a project.

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Check resource availability across projects     You can view a graph or table of resource availability to find overallocated or underallocated resources within a project or across projects in your organization. View resource workloads and availability Analyze resource performance     You can analyze project costs using PivotChart and PivotTable reports within a project or across projects. Analyze project and resource performance by using Microsoft Office Project Server 2007. Create a visual report to analyze resource performance with Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007. Modify the information for an enterprise resource     If you have the correct permissions on Project Server 2007, you can modify certain types of resource information, such as skills, costs, and calendars. Enter or change enterprise resource information Automatically replace resources with the Resource Substitution Wizard     If you are using generic resources, you can have Microsoft Office Project 2007 automatically replace them with real resources in a single project or across projects. Substitute resources in a project automatically Remove a resource from the list of enterprise resources     If you no longer want to use a resource in your project, you can deactivate the resource. This makes sure that the information and project history associated with that resource are retained. Remove or replace a resource assignment Add a resource to the list of enterprise resources     If you have non-enterprise resources in your project, you can add them to the enterprise resource pool to take advantage of enterprise features, such as the Resource Substitution Wizard, resource reporting across the organization, and other types of data analysis. Add resources to the enterprise resource pool Replace a resource     You can replace resources with another resource in the enterprise resource pool. Remove or replace a resource assignment

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