Project Management

A step-by-step guide to working with effort-driven scheduling in Microsoft Project 2007.

It is important to remember that you are not limited to computer task lists. Before computers were an integral part of the office environment, we have managed to keep a trackable task list with just a paper and pen. A hand-written to do list is simple, efficient, and effective.

Just like tracking individual time is essential, if you can group your staff in categories framed by the time spent on your project and their position and abilities, you can increase your effectiveness.

Being able to job cost is essential to project management. If you don’t know where you are losing money, you won’t be able to fix it the next time around. Job costing is an accounting practice whereby costs are accumulated by job.

Gantt Charts, Outlook Calendars, Task Lists, Blackberry’s, PDA’s; all of these enable the Project Manager to utilize time to the fullest. You can easily find the one most effective for you or the right combination that sets you apart from every other project manager.

With Office Project 2007, you can use task relationships to electronically create task sequencing. In this article, learn how.

Understanding two methods of outlining your project plan: bottom up and top down.

For tasks that occur multiple times, you can create a recurring task. There’s little difference whether you’re using Microsoft 2007 or 2010–it’s not difficult! Doing so eliminates the repetitive typing of entering the same task multiple times.

Whether you’re using Microsoft Project 2010 or Microsoft Project 2007, milestones are easily marked. Just follow the steps in this article.

When creating a work breakdown structure in Project 2007, you can choose to use the default numbering scheme or customize with your own numbering system.