what to do in MS Project

Hi Mona

If your project is scheduled, the first think is to set the baseline.

Ms project has standard report:

• Overview
• Current
• Costs
• Assignments
• Workload

Each of the above categories also contains several pre-designed reports. It depends on what is the need of stakeholder to control the project.

Also it contains visual reports which utilises the of the tables within Excel or Visio, and these come in six categories:

• Task usage
• Resource usage
• Assignment usage
• TasksSummary
• Resource summary
• Assignment summary

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Mona,

you can use the Microsoft Project software for basic planning of the different project tasks. You can schedule tasks, allocate them to resources, and if you have the cost of each resource, material etc., then you can track that also, and have a much better comparison of projectd timeline, costs versus actual costs, timelines.

This is an excellent tool, but must be used and updated regularly. Do not use it only in the planning stage. It wiill really bear fruit if you use it during executing of the project, and can save you a lot of time and money, and provide much better control over the project.

Hope this helps - Cheers - Davis.