If you’re reading from start to finish in this chapter, you’re probably shaking
your head and saying, “Boy, handwritten to-do lists look pretty good right
now. Beats creating hundreds of tasks, assigning them durations, establishing
dependencies among them, creating resources, entering resource calendar
and rate information, assigning resources and costs to tasks, entering activity
performed on tasks . . .” and so on.
Well, you’re right and wrong about that. You do have to enter a lot of information
into Project to get the benefit of its features. But you can also get a lot
out of Project.
Getting up to speed with Project
Take a moment to look at some of the wonderful things Project can do for
you. This list describes why you (or your company) bought it and why you’re
investing your time to read this book.
With Project, you enjoy the following benefits:
1- Project automatically calculates costs and timing for you based on your
input. You can quickly recalculate what-if scenarios to solve resource
conflicts, get your costs within budget, or meet your final deadline.
2- Project offers views and reports that, with the click of a button, make a
wealth of information available to you and those you report to. No more
manually building a report on total-costs-to-date to meet a last-minute
request from your boss. If she wants to know total-costs-to-date, you can
just print your Tracking Gantt view with the Tracking table displayed.
See Chapter 16 for information about reporting.
3- You can use built-in templates to get a head start on your project. Project
templates are prebuilt plans for a typical business project, such as commercial
construction, an engineering project, a new product rollout,software development, or an office move. See “Starting with templates”
later in this chapter for more about this time-saving feature.
You likely do similar types of projects all the time. After you create one
project, you use it as a template for future projects.
4- You can create resources for your project according to information you
already created in your Outlook Address Book. You can even create one
set of company resources and give access to every project manager in
the company (see Chapters 18 and 19 for how to set up centralized
enterprise resources).
5- A number of tools in Project employ complex algorithms (that you couldn’t
even begin to figure out) to do such tasks as level resource assignments to
solve resource conflicts, filter tasks by various criteria, model what-if scenarios,
and calculate in dollars the value of work performed to date.
your head and saying, “Boy, handwritten to-do lists look pretty good right
now. Beats creating hundreds of tasks, assigning them durations, establishing
dependencies among them, creating resources, entering resource calendar
and rate information, assigning resources and costs to tasks, entering activity
performed on tasks . . .” and so on.
Well, you’re right and wrong about that. You do have to enter a lot of information
into Project to get the benefit of its features. But you can also get a lot
out of Project.
Getting up to speed with Project
Take a moment to look at some of the wonderful things Project can do for
you. This list describes why you (or your company) bought it and why you’re
investing your time to read this book.
With Project, you enjoy the following benefits:
1- Project automatically calculates costs and timing for you based on your
input. You can quickly recalculate what-if scenarios to solve resource
conflicts, get your costs within budget, or meet your final deadline.
2- Project offers views and reports that, with the click of a button, make a
wealth of information available to you and those you report to. No more
manually building a report on total-costs-to-date to meet a last-minute
request from your boss. If she wants to know total-costs-to-date, you can
just print your Tracking Gantt view with the Tracking table displayed.
See Chapter 16 for information about reporting.
3- You can use built-in templates to get a head start on your project. Project
templates are prebuilt plans for a typical business project, such as commercial
construction, an engineering project, a new product rollout,software development, or an office move. See “Starting with templates”
later in this chapter for more about this time-saving feature.
You likely do similar types of projects all the time. After you create one
project, you use it as a template for future projects.
4- You can create resources for your project according to information you
already created in your Outlook Address Book. You can even create one
set of company resources and give access to every project manager in
the company (see Chapters 18 and 19 for how to set up centralized
enterprise resources).
5- A number of tools in Project employ complex algorithms (that you couldn’t
even begin to figure out) to do such tasks as level resource assignments to
solve resource conflicts, filter tasks by various criteria, model what-if scenarios,
and calculate in dollars the value of work performed to date.
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