Summary
Our focus in this chapter was to understand how MS Project can be best leveraged to initiate projects, such that you will be set up for success. Experienced project managers know that well begun is half done, and so it is really effective to start with Project right from the early stages of your project. We then completed another hands-on project exercise in this chapter, during which we holistically explored tasks, linking, and resourcing. While Project offers a great deal of customizability, you must also understand that the default behaviors are often the best suited in the vast majority of situations. However, if you want to finetune any aspect of Project, this ability exists in various configurable dialog interfaces all over the Project interface.
In the next chapter, we are going into very interesting territory. Instead of just learning how Project features behave, we will understand why they behave the way they do. We will explore the underlying logic of Project...
