Summary

Your schedule is analogous to a highly detailed manual on how to execute the project successfully. You have exercised a great deal of skill, planning, theory, and experience to develop it. But the tragedy is that people usually do not read the manual – especially if it looks unfathomable. It is your responsibility to make the schedule readable, understandable, and maintainable. An aesthetically designed schedule goes a long way in satisfying the non-functional requirements of your schedule. In this chapter, we not only discussed how to achieve an aesthetic design but also all the tools and features provided by Project to aid us on this journey. You will mostly work on these aspects during the end of the planning phase.

And with that, we bid farewell to the planning phase and can start steeling ourselves to enter the real game – project execution. The majority of project managers incorrectly associate Project with the planning phase and stop using it thereafter...