Reviewing the Impact of Changes

After you adjust your project plan to bring in your finish date, reduce costs, or balance your workload, check that you’ve succeeded in hitting your target. Look at the Project Statistics dialog box or review the project summary task, as described earlier in this chapter.

If you had created an interim plan to save the task start and finish dates as they were before you started making changes, you can add the interim start and finish fields as Gantt bars in your Gantt Chart to compare them against your new start and finish fields.

Note

For more information about interim plans, see the section titled Saving Additional Scheduled Start and Finish Dates in Chapter 10. For information about creating custom Gantt bars, see ...

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