Building your first simple project
Legend has it that the original vision for MS Project came to Ron Bredehoeft from an idea of expressing the preparation of a popular breakfast dish called Eggs Benedict in project-management terms. And so, just for fun, let's also start with a very simple cooking project: baking a cake.
If you break down the work required to bake a cake, you will get a structured list like this:
- Decide what kind of cake you want.
- Find the recipe.
- Procure and assemble ingredients.
- Cook from the recipe.
- Present the cake.
- Clean up.
- Finished!
Note that our work breakdown is also arranged chronologically in the sequence of execution. How do we get this list into Project and how do we create a schedule from it? To answer these questions, let's now return to MS Project and continue to understand the new screen.
The following is the screen that should be on your computer now. Much of your work will happen here, so...
