APS111H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Microsoft Project
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Aps 112 - lecture 3 project management. What are people going to do and how is it going to work? (project details) Planning starts before the technical design and execution. It is not an activity or an aspiration. Three schedules must be produced: set of tasks, resources, costs. The gannt chart is an example of what a schedule looks like: includes task, duration, predecessors and resource names, can be created using microsoft project. Short duration: if the duration is too long you won"t know when it"s done. Description of task: must properly discuss the task for others to understand, communication is crucial. A point in a project when an activity or group of related activities is complete, or: funding point, major change in nature of activities. Project instructions may also be changed: build five floors instead of the previously instructed ten . What you need to make the project happen.