Understanding Project Calendars
By now, you have comprehensively examined the three dimensions of scheduling – work, duration, and Units. But which is the implicit fourth dimension that is hidden within all of these? This fourth dimension is Time. In this section, we will learn how to handle time through the Calendar feature of Project.
For the sake of simplicity, so far, we have started all our practice projects by directly entering the tasks into the Entry table. This is fine for practice projects, but not for your real-life commercial projects. In the latter case, you should always start by setting a start date for your project.
The proper usage of Project requires that you configure your Calendar. In the sections to follow, we will learn how easy it is to match the calendar to the working time conditions of your organization. Although this will be simple for you, Project, in turn, translates your configurations into internal rules for its algorithms.
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