What data do you need to provide?
In the project life cycle, Microsoft
Project provides you with an instrument that will allow you to set up the plan
and then to track the progress made to monitor how far you are with it.
To set up a plan the information that you need to
provide is:
•
Start/End Date of Project
•
Calendars
• Summary tasks
•
Tasks
•
Milestones
•
Durations
•
Links / Predecessors
•
Resources
•
Costs
• Constraints / Deadlines
This should allow you to set up the project plan as
required.
Once the project has started, you need
to provide the information to monitor the progress made at any point in time.
How detailed the information is depends on the information that you need to
extract from the plan.
Do you need to just specify when tasks have
started and finished, or do you need to specify how much time each person has
spent on each task. (There are other options in between these two extremes.)
The project completion should not be the
end of the process. By using Microsoft Project, you will have a lot of data
that can be analysed. By studying how the actual project went, in comparison to
the planned project, future project plans can be improved.
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