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Project Theory
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Tue 14 Apr 2009, 16:19Delegate James said...
James has attended:
Project Intro Intermediate course
Project Theory
Is there any particular projects/project areas that you wouldnt recommend using MS project?
Tue 14 Apr 2009, 17:21Trainer Andrew said...
RE: Project Theory
Hi James
Thank you for your question. It's hard to rule out project areas but I would say that MS Project works best when used for sequences of activities that lead to one or more deliverables, and have a clear start and finish.
Tasks that represent day to day work, ongoing activities with no defined start finish dates are better suited to applications like MS Outlook.
I hope this is a help of sorts - do let us know if you have any further questions and welcome to the Forum.
Kind regards,
Andrew
Fri 24 Apr 2009, 15:55Delegate James said...
RE: Project Theory
Hi Andrew
I started using Project today and I'm stumped slighly when assign days to tasks then linking them. What I attempted is below:
test 1 2 days Mon 18/05/09 Wed 20/05/09
test 2 2 days Wed 20/05/09 Thu 21/05/09
test 3 2 days Thu 21/05/09 Mon 25/05/09
Not sure why its saying test 3 will start on Thursday?
thanks in advance
James
Fri 24 Apr 2009, 16:11Delegate James said...
RE: Project Theory
Dont worry Andrew - Worked it out - I had assigned 7 hours as a day but had an 8 hour working day.
Fri 24 Apr 2009, 17:26Trainer Andrew said...
RE: Project Theory
Hi James
Great - thanks for letting me know. If you have any other questions please send them through.
Kind regards,
Andrew
Tue 21 Apr 2009: Automatically marked as resolved.
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