Microsoft: Project 2013 Plain & Simple

Chapter 8. Adding external dependencies and deadlines

In this section:

• Adding a deadline to a task

• Changing a start or finish date for manually scheduled tasks

• Adding external dependencies for auto scheduled tasks

• Adding a specific calendar to a task

• Planning for tasks that might not happen!

Nobody ever runs a project in isolation. There are simply too many other people who will have some sort of investment, either financial or emotional, in your project. For this reason, company executives, stakeholders, and customers are likely to want to impose deadlines on certain deliverables in the project, and more important, hold you accountable for those deliverables. Understanding and tracking those deadlines is part and parcel of being a project manager. ...