1 Project Management – Part 2 Yale Braunstein School of Information Management & Systems UC Berkeley

2 More on previous topics  The “weekend problem”  We changed the working schedule, but this may cause problems if schedule changes (Alt-T-H)  Alternate approach: assign “dummy resource” and change its schedule (Select resource on Resource Sheet, then either Alt-T-H or right click)  Splitting tasks  Finding and “using” slack (tasks off the critical path)  Free slack – delays don’t delay ANY other task  Total slack – delays don’t delay project finish date

3 Track progress with MS Project  When tasks & timeline are set, save baseline  Several alternatives for tracking progress  Enter % completed  Enter time to complete  Enter date completed (more than one is allowed)  Review for changes in critical path  It is now possible to modify the baseline in Project 2000  But think about why you want to do this!  Work-around for Project 98

4 Useful source of additional information

5 Wide variety of tables, charts, views, reports,…  Use Help to sort through the many options  Use the topic “What view to print?” to see what gets printed in each view  “Determine the report to print” gives information on the many reports that are available.  See handouts  Use page format options

6 Project Summaries Alt-P-P-Statistics gives more than Alt-F-Properties-Contents