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Microsoft Project Fundamentals
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Microsoft Project Fundamentals

by Teresa S. Stover
April 2022
Beginner content levelBeginner
288 pages
6h 51m
English
Wiley
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Lesson 5Build the Schedule

You've detailed your work breakdown structure and started your project plan with tasks developed, sequenced, and outlined. Now you can dive in to scheduling those tasks, and this work will help you estimate the finish date for the overall project. Along with the project start date, the major drivers of your schedule are the task durations, task dependencies, and any hard dates a task might require.

In this lesson, you'll decide whether you want to use Microsoft Project's automatic or manual scheduling feature, and you'll learn about the Gantt Chart view in which you can work with a visual representation of your project schedule.

In your practice with the major schedule drivers, which are used in automatic scheduling, you'll learn how to set task durations, link related tasks, and enter date constraints. You'll see how ...

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