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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 6Set Up Resources

With your schedule now built, your project is looking like a solid guide toward achieving your deliverables and milestones on time. Your project is mapped out based on your project start date, project working times calendar, task durations, linked task dependencies, and any hard date constraints. With this information, Microsoft Project is able to calculate your task start and finish dates.

You don't necessarily have to add information to your project plan about the people responsible for carrying out the tasks. If you do, though, you'll be able to create a more realistic and accurate schedule. This is because the Project scheduling engine can figure in information about the people's working hours and days, in addition to whether they're working part time or full time on this effort. Project can also show how well resources are being used, and whether you have resource gaps that will hold up progress. ...

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