Microsoft® Office Project 2007 Step by Step

Chapter 14. Viewing and Reporting Project Status

Chapter at a Glance

In this chapter, you will learn how to:
✓	Determine which tasks were started or completed late.
✓	View task costs at summary and detail levels.
✓	Examine resource costs and variance.
✓	Use custom fields to create a stoplight view that illustrates each task’s cost variance.

Tip

Do you need only a quick refresher on the topics in this chapter? See the Quick Reference entries in Viewing and Reporting Project Status.

After a project’s baseline has been set and work has begun, the primary focus of the project manager shifts from planning to collecting, entering, and analyzing project performance ...