Scheduling

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Tue 10 Feb 2009, 15:51 Delegate Claire said...

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Project Intro Intermediate course

Scheduling

Have you ever know a company to use MS Project to plan and collate their holiday and sickness absence?

Fri 13 Feb 2009, 09:37 Trainer Andrew said...

RE: Scheduling

Hi Claire

Thank you for your question. I am sure that MS Project is used by organisations to track information like this. In practice though it is designed to track endeavours that have a beginning and end and a clear deliverable or output at completion rather than ongoing activities.

You may however decide to use the Resource Sheet (View > Resource sheet) as a place to store capture resource availability.

I hope this helps - do let us know if you have any further questions.

Kind regards,
Andrew

Thu 19 Feb 2009: Automatically marked as resolved.

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MS Project tip:

Keep constraining dates to a minimum

As far as possible avoid fixing the dates of your tasks. For example try to steer of clear dragging task bars in the Gantt chart to move them on the timeline or entering dates directly into the Start / Finish fields.

Date constraints such as these limit Microsoft Project's ability to automatically adjust your project whenever you add, remove or modify the duration of your tasks. Instead use the logic in your task dependencies that link your tasks to enable Project to calculate the start and finish dates for you.

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