Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed
by Rand Morimoto, Michael Noel, Guy Yardeni, Omar Droubi, Andrew Abbate, Chris Amaris
Speed Versus Risk
The project plan also enables you to test what-if scenarios. When the high-level tasks are defined, and the resources required to complete each task are also defined, you can easily plug in external contractors to certain tasks and see how the costs change. After-hours work might take place during working hours in certain places.
If the timeline still is not acceptable, tasks can be stacked so that multiple tasks occur at the same time, instead of one after the other. Microsoft Project also offers extensive tools for resource leveling to ensure that you have not accidentally committed a resource to (for example, 20 hours of work in 1 day).
The critical path of the project should also be defined. Certain key events need to take ...
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