Removing Team Members From a Task in the Gantt Chart

Project managers can remove team member assignments from tasks in the Gantt chart.

When tasks have assigned team members, one of two resources icons displays in front of the task bar:

if a single resource is assigned to the task
if more than one resource is assigned to the task

Moving your mouse cursor over the resource icon displays a pop-up with the resource name(s) and allocations if they are less than 100% of the resource's available time. Use the popup to remove assigned team members.

To remove assigned team members from a task:

In the Gantt chart, move your mouse over the resource icon next to the task for which you want to remove an assigned team member.
Click the icon next to the resource name in the pop-up.
The team member is marked with a red line and their allocation is removed:
Note: Changing assignments on a task can impact the length of a task. See Assignments and Effort Driven Tasks and Assignments and Fixed Duration - Effort Driven Tasks.

If you have not closed the window, you can click the resource icon a second time to cancel the removal.
Click OK to close the window or Cancel to cancel the removal of the assigned team member.

Note: You can also unassign team members from a task in the Task Grid by deleting their name from the Resource Names column. For more information about the Task Grid, see About the Gantt Task Grid.

By default, team members are scheduled to spend 100% of their time on a task. You can specify that team members spend a different percentage of their time working on a task. For more information, see Changing Resource Allocation Units (Effort).