Special Edition Using Microsoft® Project 2002

Collaborating During the Update Process

As a project progresses, changes occur in the project plan. Project’s collaboration features support these changes through several functions. For example, the project manager can publish new and changed task information to the team, and team members can send status reports to the project manager.

NOTE

Certain changes, such as a task’s start or finish date, can flag the task as one that needs to be communicated to the team (refer to Figure 24.9).

Project allows you to publish updated tasks only if there are tasks flagged for communication to the team. If there haven’t been any of these types of task changes and you try to publish changes, Projects sends you a message to tell you that there are no tasks ...