Chapter 14: Views, Tables, and Customization
Welcome to this new part of the book, where we will focus on the Monitoring and Control process groups of project management. The topics we discuss going forward will be of a progressively advanced nature. Monitoring involves the mining of schedule data to glean valuable information. Controlling involves the analysis of trends and performance data to bring about improvements and appraise alternative plans. In this context, tables and views in Project provide a large spectrum of features and tools designed specifically to help you monitor and control your project from start to finish.
On an everyday basis, the project manager needs to disseminate project information to the stakeholders of a project. For example, every team member will want to know their critical-task responsibilities. The testing team wants to know what the big tasks are that are executed toward the end of the project. The integration team wants to know the active tasks...
