Summary

The project tracking activity is a manager's bread and butter, especially during the execution of a project. And Project really shines in this department by providing many tools and features to aid tracking. So many techniques can be overwhelming for a brand-new user of Project, but this doesn't have to be the case. You can stick with the very simplest of techniques for a project or two, and only go to more advanced techniques as and when the situation demands it. This would be the best approach until you get a good grasp of the dynamics of tracking.

With this chapter, we have come to the end of this part of this book. In the next chapter, we start looking at the monitoring and control aspects of project management, as facilitated by Project. The concepts, techniques, tools, tips, and pitfalls we'll learn about in the upcoming part of this book will not be limited to any single phase of a project; they can generally be applied throughout the project, and will...