Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed

Project Plan

A project plan is essential for more complex migrations and can be useful for managing smaller projects, even single-server migrations. Tasks should be laid out in the order in which they will occur and be roughly half-day durations or more because a project plan that tries to track a project hour by hour can be overwhelmingly hard to keep up-to-date.

Tools such as Microsoft Project facilitate the creation of project plans and enable the assignment of one or more resources per task and the assignment of durations and links to key predecessors. The project plan can also provide an initial estimate of the number of hours required from each resource and the associated costs if outside resources are to be used. “What-if” scenarios are ...