Special Edition Using Microsoft® Office Project 2007

Chapter 12. Performing a Schedule Reality Check

In this chapter

Auditing the Schedule for Reasonableness

Reviewing the Big Picture (Critical Path Analysis)

Reviewing the Project-Level Statistics

Strategies for Analyzing Costs

Finalizing the Schedule

Baselining the Schedule

Consultants’ Tips

 

Auditing the Schedule for Reasonableness

Before you are ready to call your project planning phase complete, it is important to review your project schedule and ensure it is ready for execution. This chapter provides some important questions that you need to ask yourself, as well as some good reality checks to ensure you are truly ready to execute what you planned.

During the planning phase, you have created your task schedule, defined the task relationships ...