Are your projects constantly facing delays and your team members showing signs of burnout? Analyze and Mitigate Project Resource Overloads is a beginner-level course designed for aspiring project managers and coordinators who want to master the crucial skill of capacity planning. You will learn to move beyond guesswork and use data to ensure workloads are balanced and sustainable. This course provides a practical, step-by-step guide to interpreting resource usage views from common project management tools. Through hands-on activities, you will learn to export resource data, use spreadsheet functions like conditional formatting to instantly visualize over-allocations (>120%), and identify the root causes of workload imbalances. More importantly, you will learn how to fix them.

We will cover actionable mitigation strategies, such as task re-sequencing and proposing contractor support, and you will learn how to present these solutions in a professional recommendation memo. By the end of this course, you will be equipped to proactively manage team capacity, prevent burnout, and keep your projects on track.