Scheduling a project

The concept of a schedule is primal to the discipline and science of project management, and one simple way of defining it is as follows:

"A schedule is a chronologically ordered listing of tasks or events."

By this definition, our project has achieved a functional project schedule. In fact, MS Project can be understood as a powerful scheduling engine. Its built-in scheduling algorithms will help you in organizing, recording, calculating, tracking, reporting, and analyzing schedule data for literally any type of project.

Note

The schedule is not a project plan, even though it is very commonly referred to as such. The schedule is only a part of the overall project plan, which will include other major components, such as the Scope-Management Plan, Risk-Management Plan, Quality-Management Plan, Cost-Management Plan, and so on. For small enough projects, the schedule might constitute the whole project plan.

Resourcing your tasks

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