7. Capturing Project Progress

In This Chapter

Understanding and using baselines

Understanding the status update process

Selecting and using a status update method

In this chapter you learn about collecting progress information from your resources and updating your schedule with that information. It also explains several different methods of collecting progress information and explains the relative benefits and drawbacks of each method.

As resources on your project begin work on tasks, they will report their status and actual work hours. If your organization uses Project Professional 2013 with Project Server, some of this reporting is streamlined. However, you can choose to collect progress through more traditional means, such as weekly ...

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